Monitoring Fish Biodiversity in the Pelagic Zone of the Western Indian Ocean Using Environmental DNA Metabarcoding [PDF]
BiologyThe Indian Ocean is globally significant in terms of capture fisheries, and understanding the species composition of fish in the Indian Ocean is of great importance for the protection and development of its fishery resources.
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Social Aggregation in the Pelagic Zone with Special Reference to Fish and Invertebrates
Advances in Marine Biology, 2011 Aggregations of organisms, ranging from zooplankton to whales, are an extremely common phenomenon in the pelagic zone; perhaps the best known are fish schools. Social aggregation is a special category that refers to groups that self-organize and maintain cohesion to exploit benefits such as protection from predators, and location and capture of ...
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Fear dynamically structures the ocean’s pelagic zone [PDF]
Current Biology, 2021 Fear of predation can have wide-ranging ecological effects.1-4 This is especially true in the ocean's pelagic zone, the Earth's largest habitat, where vertical gradients in light and primary productivity force numerous taxa to migrate vertically each night to feed at the surface while minimizing risk from visual predators.5-7 Despite its importance and
Samuel S. Urmy, Kelly J. Benoit‐Bird
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Metagenomic Analysis of Virioplankton from the Pelagic Zone of Lake Baikal. [PDF]
Viruses, 2019 This study describes two viral communities from the world’s oldest lake, Lake Baikal. For the analysis, we chose under-ice and late spring periods of the year as the most productive for Lake Baikal. These periods show the maximum seasonal biomass of phytoplankton and bacterioplankton, which are targets for viruses, including bacteriophages.
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Benthic hotspots in the pelagic zone: Light and phosphate availability alter aggregates of microalgae and suspended particles in a shallow turbid lake [PDF]
Limnology and Oceanography, 2018 AbstractLimnetic aggregates from a turbid delta lake with low dissolved nutrient availability were studied in relation to light and dissolved nutrient availability. Quick light‐attenuation restricts the euphotic zone to the top surface layer of the water column, whereas mineralization processes in the sediment specifically provide dissolved nutrients ...
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Future Arctic Ocean Seasonal Ice Zones and Implications for Pelagic-Benthic Coupling [PDF]
Oceanography, 2011 Despite concerns about rapid changes in Arctic Ocean physical forcing and ecosystem function, quantitative knowledge and time series are scarce. The number of reliable physical-biological coupled models and models based on remote sensing is small.
Paul Wassmann, Marit Reigstad
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Characterisation of pelagic seascapes through micronektonic and zooplanktonic scattering layers [PDF]
Scientific ReportsLandscape ecology is a key discipline for studying the relationships between spatial patterns and ecological processes, as well as for monitoring macro-scale changes in ecosystems.
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Limnological studies of the pelagic zone of Lake Tanganyika at Kigoma, Tanzania.
Tanzania Journal of Science, 2009 Some limnological parameters and chlorophyll a were determined for twelve months at a pelagic station near Kigoma. Temperatures ranged between 25.7 ºC and 27.3 ºC at the surface, and 24.1 oC and 24.7 oC at100 m. Thermal stratification persisted throughout the year with the thermocline oscillating between 15 m in October and 60 m in May.
FMM Chale
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PLoS ONE, 2015 The production of biodegradable plastic is increasing. Given the augmented littering of these products an increasing input into the sea is expected.
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Phytoplankton primary production and its utilization by the pelagic community in the coastal zone of the Gulf of Gdansk (southern Baltic) [PDF]
Marine Ecology - Progress Series, 1997 Zbigniew Witek +8 more
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