Biological Oceanography

hide behind, soil to burrow in, and other elements of cover. If you walk through a wood, it is usual t ...

power strokes by the four or five thoracic legs followed by a tail flap, moving the animal into ...

However, it does not always work, since predators must evolve matching quickness and low shear appro ...

with their parasites, die from their parasitoids), Collinia, can infect several species of euphausiids, at l ...

spring. At least in A. californiensis there is a short “refractory” period. That is, the eggs must expe ...

Atlantic, newly emerged and mated females (termed the G 0 generation) move near to the surface to feed ...

subarctic Pacific, the endemic copepod Neocalanus plumchrus enters diapause as C5, mostly in June. The resting ...

Diel Vertical Migration (^) Nineteenth-century studies of zooplankton in both oceans and lakes showed greater abund ...

...

(^) The basic vertical migration pattern is simple: down at dawn and up at dusk. A colorful demonstration ...

proximate responses to habitat changes, i.e. the cues which say it is time to move up or down; and ( ...

such 12 kHz scattering show steep rises during solar eclipses, too, although just as the moon full ...

population mode to the variable cycle length shows that, for this animal, staying close to a preferred l ...

...

(^) Field data are always somewhat indirect, often incomplete in one way or another. For example, in the ...

ingestion at the surface, where food is abundant but it is warm, and assimilation at depth where it i ...

20 m. However, fourth copepodites with substantial gut contents were present at all depths from near the ...

particle flux, most of the gut contents and tissue that remain at depth are metabolized in the water colu ...

Chapter 9 Pelagic food webs Food chains were given an equivalent name by an Arab scholar as early as ...

planktonic polychaete, could have many more arrows, eating virtually any smaller plankter passin ...