Two hundred years of zooplankton vertical migration research

K Bandara, Ø Varpe, L Wijewardene… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Vertical migration is a geographically and taxonomically widespread behaviour among
zooplankton that spans across diel and seasonal timescales. The shorter‐term diel vertical …

Circadian clocks in the cnidaria: environmental entrainment, molecular regulation, and organismal outputs

AM Reitzel, AM Tarrant, O Levy - Integrative and Comparative …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The circadian clock is a molecular network that translates predictable environmental signals,
such as light levels, into organismal responses, including behavior and physiology. Regular …

Coastal water darkening and implications for mesopelagic regime shifts in Norwegian fjords

DL Aksnes, N Dupont, A Staby, Ø Fiksen… - Marine Ecology …, 2009 - int-res.com
The light regime of the water column has a strong structuring effect on aquatic food webs
and it has been previously hypothesized that coastal water darkening has increased the …

Spatial dynamics and expanded vertical niche of blue sharks in oceanographic fronts reveal habitat targets for conservation

N Queiroz, NE Humphries, LR Noble, AM Santos… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Dramatic population declines among species of pelagic shark as a result of overfishing have
been reported, with some species now at a fraction of their historical biomass. Advanced …

Negative phototaxis in the photosymbiotic sea anemone Aiptasia as a potential strategy to protect symbionts from photodamage

M Kishimoto, SG Gornik, NS Foulkes, A Guse - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Photosymbiotic cnidarians generally seek bright environments so that their symbionts can
be photosynthetically active. However, excess light may result in a breakdown of symbiosis …

[HTML][HTML] Light comfort zones of mesopelagic acoustic scattering layers in two contrasting optical environments

A Røstad, S Kaartvedt, DL Aksnes - Deep Sea Research Part I …, 2016 - Elsevier
We make a comparison of the mesopelagic sound scattering layers (SLs) in two contrasting
optical environments; the clear Red Sea and in murkier coastal waters of Norway …

Follow the light—diurnal and seasonal variations in vertical distribution of the mesopelagic fish Maurolicus muelleri

A Staby, DL Aksnes - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2011 - int-res.com
Previous 1 d studies (Giske et al. 1990, Sarsia 75: 65–81; Baliño & Aksnes 1993, Mar Ecol
Prog Ser 102: 35–50; Rasmussen & Giske 1994, Mar Biol 120: 649–664) of the mesopelagic …

Fine-scale depth structure of pelagic communities throughout the global ocean based on acoustic sound scattering layers

R Proud, MJ Cox, C Le Guen, AS Brierley - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2018 - int-res.com
Most multicellular biomass in the mesopelagic zone (200-1000 m) comprises zooplankton
and fish aggregated in layers known as sound scattering layers (SSLs), which scatter sound …

Flexible behaviour in a mesopelagic fish (Maurolicus muelleri)

S Christiansen, TA Klevjer, A Røstad… - ICES Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Variability of mesopelagic scattering layers is often attributed to environmental conditions or
multi-species layer composition. Yet, little is known about variation in behaviour among the …

Towards develo** a general framework for modelling vertical migration in zooplankton

AY Morozov, OA Kuzenkov - Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Diel vertical migration (DVM) of zooplankton is a widespread phenomenon in both oceans
and lakes, and is generally considered to be the largest synchronized movement of biomass …