Comments on: 50 Botany blogs (and plant plankton?) http://takluyver.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/50-botany-blogs-and-plant-plankton/ On plant science. Mostly. Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:23:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Frederick Essig http://takluyver.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/50-botany-blogs-and-plant-plankton/#comment-256 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:09:32 +0000 http://takluyver.wordpress.com/?p=443#comment-256 Phytoplankton, algae, even plants themselves are tricky terms to define. Formal definition of “plants” these days do not include algae or cyanobacteria. See my recent blog post.

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]]> By: Thomas Kluyver http://takluyver.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/50-botany-blogs-and-plant-plankton/#comment-237 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:37:32 +0000 http://takluyver.wordpress.com/?p=443#comment-237 According to Wikipedia (fount of all knowledge, etc.), plankton can include freshwater environments. So perhaps floating plants like duckweed count as plankton. Algae’s another interesting one, though. And it’s often casually used for things like cyanobacteria, as well.

]]> By: The Phytophactor http://takluyver.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/50-botany-blogs-and-plant-plankton/#comment-235 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:42:59 +0000 http://takluyver.wordpress.com/?p=443#comment-235 Totally agree; plankton is ecological, basically referring to organisms adapted to open oceanic environments, not taxonomic. Another really tricky term like that is “algae”; phytoplankton at one extreme and giant kelps at the other.

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