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SUBMITTER: Basedow SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6346024 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Basedow Sünnje L SL McKee David D Lefering Ina I Gislason Astthor A Daase Malin M Trudnowska Emilia E Egeland Einar Skarstad ES Choquet Marvin M Falk-Petersen Stig S
Scientific reports 20190124 1
Zooplankton provide the key link between primary production and higher levels of the marine food web and they play an important role in mediating carbon sequestration in the ocean. All commercially harvested fish species depend on zooplankton populations. However, spatio-temporal distributions of zooplankton are notoriously difficult to quantify from ships. We know that zooplankton can form large aggregations that visibly change the color of the sea, but the scale and mechanisms producing these ...[more]