Zooplankton are considered very good indicators
of environmental change because they have short
generation times and limited mobility. Reports of shifts
in distributions and phenology have been attributed to
climate change. In recent years, zooplankton assemblages
in many estuaries worldwide include exotic species
introduced from across the globe often as a result of
transport by commercial shipping.
Bibliography
Johnson, W. S., and Allen, D. M., 2012. Zooplankton of the Atlantic
and Gulf coasts: A Guide to Their Identification and Ecology,
2nd edn. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Cross-references
Ichthyoplankton
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