Water-Column Zone Impacts Non-Essential Heavy Metal Accumulation in Fish Occupying Different Zones [PDF]
ToxicsThe Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy have documented increases in heavy metals with specific properties, resulting in differing concentrations throughout the water column.
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Divergent patterns of zooplankton connectivity in the epipelagic and mesopelagic zones of the eastern North Pacific [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Due to historical under‐sampling of the deep ocean, the distributional ranges of mesopelagic zooplankton are not well documented, leading to uncertainty about the mechanisms that shape midwater zooplankton community composition.
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Global estimate of mesopelagic mesozooplankton biomass [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe global standing stock of mesozooplankton in the mesopelagic zone was assessed using estimates of particulate organic carbon (POC) and net primary productivity (NPP).
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Global census of the significance of giant mesopelagic protists to the marine carbon and silicon cycles [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThriving in both epipelagic and mesopelagic layers, Rhizaria are biomineralizing protists, mixotrophs or flux-feeders, often reaching gigantic sizes.
Manon Laget +9 more
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ENSO modulates aerobic habitat across varying hypoxia tolerance levels in the Southeast Pacific throughout the twenty-first century [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation), the planet’s most consequential climate mode, imposes significant thermal stress on epipelagic marine ecosystems. However, its effects on aerobic habitats within the epipelagic and mesopelagic zones remain largely
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Pelagic cnidarian assemblages show range-edge effect at the boundary of ocean surface, as illustrated in the case of the Amazon River Plume. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe neuston layer represents a complex community inhabiting the interface where oceanographic and atmospheric processes interact. Here, our aim was to compare patterns in the distribution and abundance of cnidarian assemblages observed in the neuston to ...
Everton Giachini Tosetto +4 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 The spatio-temporal distributions of the epipelagic mesozooplankton community in the western Ross Sea region marine protected area (RSR MPA) were investigated.
Sung Hoon Kim +12 more
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The Open-Ocean Gulf of Mexico After Deepwater Horizon: Synthesis of a Decade of Research
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 The scale of the Deepwater Horizon disaster was and is unprecedented: geographic extent, pollutant amount, countermeasure scope, and of most relevance to this Research Topic issue, range of ecotypes affected.
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Interannual fluctuations in the structure and the composition of ichthyoplankton assemblages in the pelagic waters of the Strait of Sicily (SoS, Central Mediterranean) were investigated, trying to relate them to the observed variability in oceanographic ...
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 The early life stages of fishes play a critical role in pelagic food webs and oceanic carbon cycling, yet little is known about the taxonomic composition and distribution of larval fishes in the northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) below the epipelagic (<200
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