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Adaptations for Planktonic Life

  • The Bioluminescence Web Page
    Interesting information, photographs, and links on this topic.
    http://lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum/
    (Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)

Primary Productivity

  • Net Primary Productivity Database
    This site has much information, from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The emphasis, however, is on terrestrial ecosystems.
    http://www-eosdis.ornl.gov/NPP/npp_home.html
    (Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)

Zooplankton

  • Copepod General Biology
    A short page on zooplankton.
    http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/crust/copbiol.html
    (Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)
  • Pelagic Zone
    Zooplankton. Text and photographs of zooplankton.
    http://bonita.mbnms.nos.noaa.gov/sitechar/pelagic4.html
    (Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)
  • Plankton Index
    Photographs of various plankters.
    http://lifesci.ucsb.edu/~haddock/plankton/
    (Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)
  • Zooplankton Fact Sheet
    This site focuses on freshwater zooplankton, but is applicable to marine zooplankters as well.
    http://www.uga.edu/~srel/zoo.htm
    (Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)

El Niño

  • Ocean Watch
    This site describes the 1997-1998 El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and you can watch the changes in sea surface temperature in a terrific video.
    http://ioc.unesco.org/iocweb/el%20nino/movie3.html
    (Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)
  • Sea Surface Temperatures
    This page from the University of Wisconsin has current and archived sea surface temperature maps.
    http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/sst.html
    (Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)
  • The El Niño Theme Page
    Much information on El Niño and La Niña supported by NOAA.
    http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/nino-home.html
    (Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)

La Niña

Southern Ocean Global Environmental Change (GLOBEC): three sites








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