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The term ‘plankton’ was first used by Victor Hensen in 1887 for wanderers or drifters in the open water column, being distributed from neritic or coastal area to the deep sea. They live in the water column for their entire life (holoplankton) or may have a benthic life history stage (meroplankton). In the latter case, they spend part of their life in the pelagic zone as suspension feeders, as seen in the larvae of marine benthic invertebrates, which undergo metamorphosis into adults as either suspension feeders or deposit feeders. Some of them, particularly some zooplankton, are highly motile but are passive to water movement and oceanic currents. This is a property distinct from the nekton, which can move against the water movement and are usually difficult to catch in plankton nets.
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Inaba, K., Ishida, Ki., Nakayama, T. (2020). Marine Plankton. In: Inaba, K., Hall-Spencer, J. (eds) Japanese Marine Life. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1326-8_4
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