HOT station ALOHA) and a mesotrophic (Japanese time-series station K2) environment in
the North Pacific Ocean are compared as part of a research program investigating the
factors that control the efficiency of particle export to the deep sea (VERtical Transport In the
Global Ocean—VERTIGO). We analyzed zooplankton (> 350μm) collected from net tows
taken between 0 and 1000m at each site to investigate the biomass size structure and the …