Phenology in the deep sea: Seasonal and tidal feeding rhythms in a keystone octocoral ...

• Main Authors: Girard, Fanny, Litvin, Steven, Sherman, Alana, McGill, Paul, Gannon, Amanda, DeVogelaere, Andrew, Burton, Erica, Graves, Dale, Schnittger, Aaron, Lovera, Christopher, Barry, James
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2022
• Subjects: cold-water coral; Paragorgia arborea; Sur Ridge; Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary; polyp activity; temporal dynamics; FOS: Biological sciences; Marcon; Pacific
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.nvx0k6dw4; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.nvx0k6dw4

Biological rhythms are widely known in terrestrial and marine systems, where the behavior or function of organisms may be tuned to environmental variation over periods from minutes to seasons or longer. Although well characterized in coastal environments, phenology remains poorly understood in the d...