Seasonal variation in the white muscle biochemical composition of deep-sea macrourids in the North-east Atlantic

• Published in: Marine Biology
• Main Authors: Kemp, K.M., Fraser, Keiron P.P., Collins, Martin Anthony, Priede, I.G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2008
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Biology and Microbiology; Ecology and Environment; Porcupine Seabight; North East Atlantic; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11544/

The foremost temporal signal to the deep benthos, where temperature and light conditions are relatively constant, is a seasonal pulse of organic carbon sinking from the photic layer. In the Porcupine Seabight region of the NE Atlantic this flux begins during late spring and early summer, although th...