Zooplankton are major consumers of phytoplankton primary production in marine
ecosystems. As such, they represent a critical link for energy and matter transfer between …

The ocean's ability to sequester carbon away from the atmosphere exerts an important
control on global climate. The biological pump drives carbon storage in the deep ocean and …

Vertical migration is a geographically and taxonomically widespread behaviour among
zooplankton that spans across diel and seasonal timescales. The shorter‐term diel vertical …

The “biological pump” is the process by which photosynthetically-produced organic matter in
the ocean descends from the surface layer to depth by a combination of sinking particles …

Marine zooplankton comprise a phylogenetically and functionally diverse assemblage of
protistan and metazoan consumers that occupy multiple trophic levels in pelagic food webs …

The role of fishes in the global carbon cycle is poorly known and often neglected. We show
that the biomass of mesopelagic fishes off the continental USA west to longitude 141° W is …

Estimates of carbon flux to the deep oceans are essential for our understanding of global
carbon budgets. Sinking of detrital material (“biological pump”) is usually thought to be the …

The mesopelagic zone is the oceanic region through which carbon and other elements must
pass in order to reach deeper waters or the sea floor. However, the food web interactions …

Metabolic activity in the water column below the euphotic zone is ultimately fuelled by the
vertical flux of organic material from the surface. Over time, the deep ocean is presumably at …

This research explores the distributions and community composition of pelagic species in
the sub-Arctic and Arctic waters of the northern Bering and central and southern Chukchi …