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Comments on a recently described moorable, automated plankton sampler are given, mainly because it was designed to capture large zooplankton. However, the need for automatic devices for sampling phyto- and zooplankton is stressed. A new design for such a device is presented. A preliminary test was made using standard continuous-flow (auto-analyser) equipment, a cultured flagellate and formalin as a fixative.
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Peperzak, L., Hofstraat, J.W. & Colijn, F. A moorable, automated plankton sampler: comments on Lewis & Heckl (1991). Hydrobiologia 245, 105–107 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00764770
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