RESEARCH STRICKLER LAB

Zooplankton: Definition
The Expression "Plankton" stems from Hensen (1887). Zooplankton is the community of many small animals, called Zooplankters, living in water, fresh as well as marine.
Zooplankton: Abundance of Copepods
 There may be 1.347 × 10exp21 planktonic copepods alive today (Boxshall 1998)
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES 1 Focus on Copepods (Crustaceans)
We focus mainly on planktonic copepods -- calanoids and cyclopoids -- as well as, on cladocerans as our animals.

Here are pictures of some of them:
Eucalanus attenatus
Euchaeta rimana
Gaussia princeps
Haloptilus spiniceps
 Corycaeus sp.
© STRICKLER - UWM 1999-2003 to RESEARCH OBJECTIVES 2