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Mesoscale Eddies Structure Mesopelagic Communities

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Mesoscale eddies play a key role in structuring open ocean ecosystems, affecting the entire trophic web from primary producers to large pelagic predators including sharks and elephant seals.
Alice Della Penna, Alice Della Penna, Peter Gaube   +2 more
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Respiration Rates in the Global Mesopelagic Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters
Respiration in the mesopelagic layer of the oceans (200–1,000 dbar) is a key factor controlling the biological carbon pump, as it attenuates the downward flux of organic carbon to the ocean interior.
Markel Gómez‐Letona, Xosé Antón Álvarez‐Salgado   +1 more
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Ocean deoxygenation linked to ancient mesopelagic fish decline [PDF]

Communications Earth & Environment
Mesopelagic fish are integral to ocean food webs and play an important role in carbon transport through their vertical migration behavior. Ocean deoxygenation caused by anthropogenic warming is expected to pose severe threats to mesopelagic fauna by ...
Sven Pallacks, Patrizia Ziveri, Helen A. Jannke, Chien-Hsiang Lin, Adam V. Subhas, Eric Galbraith, Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr, Oliver Friedrich, André Bahr, Andreas Koutsodendris, Jörg Pross, Richard D. Norris   +11 more
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Ecomorphology of a predatory deep-sea fish family: does trophic specialization drive hyperspeciation?

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
Two of the main drivers of speciation among aquatic vertebrates are physical isolation (e.g., lakes and streams) and micro-niche availability (e.g., tropical reefs).
Ryan P. McGonagle, David W. Kerstetter, Danté Fenolio, Tracey T. Sutton   +3 more
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Mesopelagic Scattering Layer Behaviors Across the Clarion-Clipperton Zone: Implications for Deep-Sea Mining

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
The Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) is a 4 million km2 area in the eastern Central Pacific Ocean exhibiting large variability in environmental parameters, particularly oxygen and primary production, that is being targeted for deep-sea polymetallic nodule ...
Jessica N. Perelman, Eric Firing, Jesse M. A. van der Grient, Benjamin A. Jones, Jeffrey C. Drazen   +4 more
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Exploration of Ecological Implications of a Mesopelagic Fishery

, 2021
This archived material is for the paper titled the "The economic tradeoffs and ecological impacts associated with a potential mesopelagic fishery in the California Current" completed by Sally Dowd, Melissa Chapman, Laura E.
Millie Chapman, Laura Koehn, Sally Dowd
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Importance of the Lunar Cycle on Mesopelagic Foraging by Atlantic Bluefin Tuna in the Upwelling Area of the Strait of Messina (Central Mediterranean Sea)

Animals, 2022
The influence of the lunar cycle on bluefin tuna foraging in the upwelling area of the Strait of Messina was investigated by exploring trophic interaction with mesopelagic fish and cephalopod prey.
Pietro Battaglia, Cristina Pedà, Danilo Malara, Giacomo Milisenda, Brian R. MacKenzie, Valentina Esposito, Pierpaolo Consoli, Teresa Manuela Vicchio, Maria Giulia Stipa, Luca Pagano, Francesco Longo, Teresa Romeo   +11 more
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Taxonomic Richness and Diversity of Larval Fish Assemblages in the Oceanic Gulf of Mexico: Links to Oceanographic Conditions

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Biodiversity enhances the productivity and stability of marine ecosystems and provides important ecosystem services. The aim of this study was to characterize larval fish assemblages in pelagic waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico (NGoM) and identify ...
Corinne R. Meinert, Kimberly Clausen-Sparks, Maëlle Cornic, Tracey T. Sutton, Jay R. Rooker, Jay R. Rooker   +5 more
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Evidence of temperature control on mesopelagic fish and zooplankton communities at high latitudes

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Across temperate and equatorial oceans, a diverse community of fish and zooplankton occupies the mesopelagic zone, where they are detectable as sound-scattering layers. At high latitudes, extreme day-night light cycles may limit the range of some species,
Julek Chawarski, Thor A. Klevjer, David Coté, Maxime Geoffroy, Maxime Geoffroy   +4 more
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Carbon cycling and POC turnover in the mesopelagic zone of the ocean: Insights from a simple model [PDF]

, 2010
Carbon budgets of the mesopelagic zone are poorly constrained, highlighting our lack of understanding of the biota that inhabit this environment and their role in the cycling and sequestering of carbon in the deep ocean.
Tang, Kam W., Anderson, Thomas R., Kam Tang   +2 more
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