salp

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I accept that krill and salp densities are inversely related but this may be due to ocean conditions (? increasing acidity) rather than through direct competition.

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  1. noun Any of various free-swimming tunicates of the genus Salpa, of warm seas, having a translucent, somewhat flattened, keglike body.

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  • I accept that krill and salp densities are inversely related but this may be due to ocean conditions (? increasing acidity) rather than through direct competition. —  RealClimate
  • Obviously, the difficulties of widespread salp culture, in part by encouraging phytoplanton blooms with fertilisation, might well prove insuperable. —  RealClimate
  • I am merely seeking enlightenment, not advocating salp culture. —  RealClimate
  • Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 119 www. salp.pdx.edu —  Daily Vanguard RSS
  • The pram bug Phronima (bottom left, specifc gravity 1.046) gets its float on with a gelatinous house that it steals nefariously from a salp (bottom right, specific gravity 1.026). —  UnderwaterTimes.com News of the Underwater World
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  1. From New Latin Salpa, genus name, from Latin, a kind of stockfish, from Greek salpē.

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  1. = French saupe = Spanish salpa, from Latin salpa, a kind of stock-fish: see Salpa.
 

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