Aquatic ecology and Biodiversity

Unit 7- Biotic communities

7.1.3. Plankton communities
Plankton and neuston consists of free floating organisms, both animals and plants whose movements are so feeble that they remain essentially at the mercy of current or other water movement. All Plankton are members of the euplankton (True plankton) as against the pseudoplankton (Nonliving debris or dead plankton)