Bathypelagic Fish Diversity in the Sargasso Sea, Northwestern Atlantic Ocean [PDF]
, 2008 Of the various marine habitats, one of the (if not the) most daunting to quantify is the under-sampled bathypelagic zone (\u3e 1000 m depth), which at 60% of the ocean’s volume is the largest habitat on Earth. One project addressing this challenge is the
Bucklin, Ann +3 more
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Length Structure of Deep-Pelagic Fishes Sheds New Light to their Life Histories [PDF]
, 2013 Here we use a new technique to study life history variation in deep-pelagic fishes from a mid-ocean ridge system. Shape of length distribution in a population is to a significant extent determined by the degree to which an average individual approaches ...
Boukal, David S. +5 more
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Prokaryotic assemblages and metagenomes in pelagic zones of the South China Sea [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Prokaryotic microbes, the most abundant organisms in the ocean, are remarkably diverse. Despite numerous studies of marine prokaryotes, the zonation of their communities in pelagic zones has been poorly delineated.
Ching-Hung Tseng +11 more
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Marine snow surface production and bathypelagic export at the Equatorial Atlantic from an imaging float [PDF]
BiogeosciencesThe marine biological carbon pump (BCP) plays a central role in the global carbon cycle, transporting carbon from the surface to the deep ocean and sequestering it for long periods.
J. Habib +13 more
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An inside look at bathypelagic viruses
, 2016 1 page, 3 figures, 1 table Extensive research in surface ocean layers has demonstrated that viruses are significant components of marine microbial communities. But the dark ocean is the largest and the most unexplored habitat in the biosphere, comprising 1.3 X 1018 m3 (Arístegui, 2009).
Lara, Elena +8 more
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Zooplankton vertical stratification in the East-pacific and Indian sectors of the Southern Ocean
Frontiers in Marine ScienceIntroductionIn the Southern Ocean, the large-scale distribution of zooplankton, including their abundance and community composition from the epipelagic to the upper bathypelagic layers, remains poorly understood.
Yunzhe Liu +11 more
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Environmentally induced physiological responses that determine fish survival and distribution: a review [PDF]
, 2005 Limitation to an aqueous habitat is the most fundamental physiological constraint imposed upon fish, phrases such as 'like a fish of water', convey our acceptance of the general unsuitability of fish for terrestrial existence.
Odunze, F.C.
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Diet composition of fish species from the southern continental shelf of Colombia [PDF]
, 2002 The diet composition of 30 fish species belonging to 16 families from the Pacific Coast of Colombia is described. Benthic crustaceans (37.5%) and bony fishes (23.7%, chiefly demersal) were the most important food items for the fish species analyzed. Data
Arcila, C.A.T., Lopez-Peralta, R.H.
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The meso- and bathypelagic cephalopod fauna of the Gully submarine canyon
Marine BiodiversityAbstractFour midwater-trawl surveys were conducted during the summers of 2007–2009 and the spring of 2010 to document the meso- and bathypelagic biodiversity of the Gully canyon. These surveys collected 3871 cephalopods of at least 38 species in 22 families.
Elizabeth K. Shea, Trevor J. Kenchington
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