macrozooplankton

English

Etymology

From macro- +‎ zooplankton.

Noun

macrozooplankton (uncountable)

1. Any relatively large plankton, visible to the naked eye; the minimum size is defined in various sources as from 0.5 mm to 5.0 mm.
   • 1999 May 14, Kenneth L. Smith, Ronald S. Kaufmann, “Long-Term Discrepancy Between Food Supply and Demand in the Deep Eastern North Pacific”, in Science‎^[1], volume 284, number 5417, →DOI, pages 1174–1177:

     Since the late 1970s, macrozooplankton volume in the California Current has declined over 70%, in concert with increasing sea surface temperatures (1, 2 ).

Derived terms

• macrozooplanktonic