copepods crustaceans that are at the base of the food chain and feed on algae lives in the shallow waters

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Location: Arctic ocean eastern Beaufort Sea North Slope, ANWR, of Alaska
Photo credit: © Steven J. Kazlowski / Alamy / Afripics
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