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The real reason is that filter-feeding shellfish may have consumed toxic flagellates sieved from the plankton during those months.
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Similarly, he had often wondered what it was like to be a filter-feeding mollusk—an oyster, a clam, a mussel, or, say, a barnacle.
Working Title: "Third Persons" Glenn Klopfenstein 2011
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Many are large enough (100 micrometer) to be consumed by filter-feeding fish such as anchovies and sardines.
Marine microbes 2009
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We were also working on the Mirischia project, the Leedsichthys dig at Whittlesey (Leedsichthys was a giant Jurassic filter-feeding fish, equivalent in size to a small whale), the palaeopathology project, and other stuff.
‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part III Darren Naish 2006
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Herbivory, filter-feeding, carrion-feeding and flightlessness have all been evolved by ducks.
The Madagascar pochard returns Darren Naish 2006
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The algal toxins are concentrated by filter-feeding bivalves, fish and other marine organisms, and they can cause fish and shellfish poisoning or paralysis.
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Although this has since been considered an overestimate, it is clear that filter-feeding aimals can have strong impacts on water quality. as As a result of overfishing and several devastating diseases, the oyster population is currently only a tiny fraction of what it used to be, and algal blooms are more common, as the phytoplankton can no longer be controlled by the filter feeders (increased levels of nutrients exacerbate this effect).
Top-down control 2008
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Jeff tells that filter-feeding is a specific form of suspension-feeding, and one that was likely not practised by Leedsichthys.
My party and those marvellous metriorhynchids Darren Naish 2006
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* Not ‘filter-feeding’ as I said in a previous post.
My party and those marvellous metriorhynchids Darren Naish 2006
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Herbivory, filter-feeding, carrion-feeding and flightlessness have all been evolved by ducks.
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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