Abstract This paper takes a look at a vast diversity of animals and organisms that inhabit sections of bodies of water, oceans, seas and other known bodies of fresh water. The paper focuses specifically on plankton and zooplankton. The paper then lists various examples of zooplankton and taxonomy.
Outline:
Plankton
Zooplankton
Examples of Zooplankton and Taxonomy
From the Paper "The most common among freshwater zooplanktons are four major groups of animals: protozoa, rotifers, and two subclasses of the Crustacea, the cladocerans and copepods. The planktonic protozoa have restricted locomotion. They lack the mobility to actively swim. But the rotifers, copepod microcrustaceans and cladoceran, and specific immature insect larvae usually move lengthily in dormant water. Many pelagial protozoa are meroplanktonic, their lifecycle as planktonic animals usually occurs only during summer season. These forms expend the remainder of their life cycle in the sediments, often enclosed throughout the winter period. Bacteria sized water element are common food of many protozoans. Most of the known rotifers are non-predatory. They feed on bacteria, small algae, and other organic matter. Crustaceans are invertebrates that live in water as well as on land and can vary from microscopic to sixty centimeters. They are a large group of arthropods which is around 55,000 species. The most common among crustaceans are lobsters crabs shrimps and barnacles."
Abstract This paper examines how forensic entomology is the science and study of insects and other arthropods associated with human remains to aid legal investigations. It also looks at how palynology is a term first used by Hyde and Williams (1944) for the collective study of pollen, grains and spores. This discipline has since been expanded into the study of other acid-resistant micro organisms. Finally, the paper also discusses how phytoplankton are the autotrophic component of plankton which exist in water columns. Phytoplankton obtain energy from photosynthesis so live on the well lit surface of oceans, seas, rivers and/or lakes. It shows how all three disciplines are useful to forensic science. Photographs and diagrams are included in the paper.
Outline:
Introduction
Forensic Entomology
Successional Waves of Insects
Maggots Age and Development
Forensic Palynology
Phytoplankton
References
From the Paper "Flowering angiosperms completely submerged in water release their pollen and rely upon currents in the water to transport it from the male anther to female stigma of a neighbouring flower. This method, similarly to wind pollination is very hit and miss. It is therefore logical that these types of plants have high productivity of pollen, with each anther producing 1000s. These underwater plants produce pollen types which have a single layered cellulose wall it is very rarely preserved in lake sediments and therefore they are of little use."
