Mesopelagic fishes are a key component acting as an important link between secondary
producers and upper trophic levels in oceanic ecosystems. The Kuroshio region is an …

Zooplankton growth rates ultimately shape the functional response of marine ecosystems to
regional and global climate changes, because they determine the quantity and distribution …

Abstract The Kuroshio Current has been thought to be biologically unproductive because of
its oligotrophic conditions and low plankton standing stocks. Even though vulnerable life …

Abstract The Osumi Strait and its neighboring waters are major spawning grounds for
commercially important small pelagic and coastal fish in the Pacific coastal area of Japan …

Trophic sources and pathways supporting early life stages are crucial for survival of forage
fishes recruiting around the oligotrophic and unproductive Kuroshio. However, information is …

Plankton ecosystems are complex, multi-trophic networks of biotic and abiotic interactions
among physical and chemical components. Still, nutrient-phytoplankton (NP) interactions …

Larvae of mesopelagic fishes usually dominate in oceanic larval fish assemblages, but
detailed investigations of their ecology are limited and thus preclude full assessment of the …

Rather than spatial means of biomass, observed overlap in the intermittent spatial
distributions of aquatic predators and prey is known to be more important for determining the …

Greater amberjack (Seriola dumerili) is an important fishery resource with a circumglobal
distribution from tropical to temperate waters. Here, we investigated the spawning migration …

Many migratory fishes carry out reproduction and early development around the Kuroshio, in
spite of a high‐risk life history strategy even in the oligotrophic region. Here, we demonstrate …