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MesopTroph, a database of trophic parameters to study interactions in mesopelagic food webs

Scientific Data, 2022
Mesopelagic organisms play a crucial role in marine food webs, channelling energy across the predator-prey network and connecting depth strata through their diel vertical migrations.
Mónica A. Silva, Catarina T. Fonseca, M. Olivar, A. Bernal, J. Spitz, T. Chouvelon, S. Jónasdóttir, A. Colaço, V. Carmo, T. Sutton, G. Menezes, T. Falkenhaug, O. Bergstad, S. Pérez‐Jorge   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mapping Escolar (Lepidocybium flavobrunneum) in Motion: Oceanographic Forces Shaping Its Habitat in the Southwestern South Atlantic, With Insights From Fishers' Perceptions

Fisheries Oceanography, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Lepidocybium flavobrunneum [Smith, 1843], commonly known as escolar, is a large pelagic species, important for global and local fisheries, particularly in the southwestern South Atlantic Ocean (SWAO), where it constitutes a significant portion of the catch.
Lucas Rodrigues, Maria Grazia Pennino, Paul Gerhard Kinas, David Conesa, Alba Fuster‐Alonso, Andrés Domingo, Rodrigo Forselledo, Federico Mas, Bruno Mourato, Rodrigo Sant'Ana, Vinni Santos Thykjaer, Raquel Virginia Marquez Marquez, Abner Ventura Alves, Mariano Cabanillas‐Torpoco, Rafael Schroeder, Luis Gustavo Cardoso   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trophic-Mediated Pelagic Habitat Structuring and Partitioning by Sympatric Elasmobranchs

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Pelagic elasmobranchs are key elements of oceanic ecosystems and must be preserved if marine trophic networks are to be kept in balance. Yet, they face intense fishing pressure that has been threatening their populations worldwide.
André S. Afonso, André S. Afonso, Bruno C. L. Macena, Bruno Mourato, Natalia P. A. Bezerra, Sibele Mendonça, Joyce D. G. R. de Queiroz, Fábio H. V. Hazin   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

A dark hole in our understanding of marine ecosystems and their services : perspectives from the mesopelagic community [PDF]

, 2016
In the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures acting on the Earth system, urgent actions are needed to guarantee efficient resource management and sustainable development for our growing human population.
Adrian Peter Martin, Angel eBorja, Guillem eChust, Ivo eGrigorov, Michael Arthur St. John, Michael eHeath, Patrizio eMariani, Ricardo eSerrão Santos, Ricardo eSerrão Santos   +8 more
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Environmental drivers of upper mesopelagic fish assemblages in the Benguela Upwelling System

Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2022
: The Benguela upwelling system is one of the most productive marine ecosystems in the world; however, little is known about the community structure of mesopelagic fishes in its northern (nBUS) and southern (sBUS) subsystems.
S. Duncan, AF Sell, W. Hagen, HO Fock
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Giants in the cold: Morphological evidence for vascular heat retention in the viscera but not the skeletal muscle of the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus)

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Fewer than 50 of the over 30,000 extant species of fishes have developed anatomical specializations facilitating endothermy in specific body regions. The plankton‐feeding basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), traditionally classified as an ectotherm, was recently shown to have regionally endothermic traits such as centralized red muscle (RM ...
C. Antonia Klöcker, Axel Schlindwein, Martin C. Arostegui, Ingrid M. Bruvold, Joel V. Wernström, Montserrat Martin‐Armas, David W. Sims, Nicolas Straube, Andreas Altenburger, Claudia Junge   +9 more
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Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage (COMICS): fieldwork, synthesis and modelling efforts

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2016
The ocean’s biological carbon pump plays a central role in regulating atmospheric CO2 levels. In particular, the depth at which sinking organic carbon is broken down and respired in the mesopelagic zone is critical, with deeper remineralisation resulting
Richard John Sanders, Stephanie Henson, Adrian Martin, Tom Anderson, Raffaele Bernardello, Peter Enderlein, Sophie Fielding, Sarah L. C Giering, Manuela Hartmann, Morten Iversen, Samar Khatiwala, Phyllis Lam, Richard Lampitt, Daniel Mayor, Mark Moore, Eugene Murphy, Stuart Painter, Alex James Poulton, Kevin Saw, Gabriele Stowasser, Geraint Tarling, Sinhue Torres-Valdes, Mark Trimmer, George Wolff, Andrew Yool, Mike Zubkov   +25 more
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The protist community traces seasonality and mesoscale hydrographic features in the oligotrophic Sargasso Sea

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Protists represent the majority of the eukaryotic diversity in the oceans. They have different functions in the marine food web, playing essential roles in the biogeochemical cycles.
Leocadio Blanco-Bercial, Rachel Parsons, Luis M. Bolaños, Rod Johnson, Stephen J. Giovannoni, Ruth Curry   +5 more
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Carbon export and transfer to depth across the Southern Ocean Great Calcite Belt [PDF]

, 2015
Sequestration of carbon by the marine biological pump depends on the processes that alter, remineralize, and preserve particulate organic carbon (POC) during transit to the deep ocean.
Auro, M. E., Balch, W. M., Bowler, B., Drapeau, D., Lam, P. J., Pike, S., Rosengard, Sarah Zhou   +6 more
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On the occurrence of the snakefish Trachinocephalus myops (Aulopiformes: Synodontidae) in the Azores archipelago

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract The snakefish Trachinocephalus myops is an Atlantic species distributed in tropical and temperate coastal waters on sandy substrates. This study reports the validated record of an adult T. myops in the Azores archipelago caught by a fisherman at Faial Island.
Iryna Hulevata, Filipe M. Porteiro, Eva Giacomello, Diana Catarino   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source