The Effect of the North Atlantic Subpolar Front as a Boundary in Pelagic Biogeography Decreases with Increasing Depth and Organism Size
Broad-scale patterns in the distribution of deep-sea pelagic species and communities are poorly known. An important question is whether biogeographic boundaries identified from surface features are important in the deep mesopelagic and bathypelagic. We present community analyses of discrete-depth sa...
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ftnsoutheastern:oai:nsuworks.nova.edu:occ_facarticles-1748 2023-05-15T17:31:51+02:00 The Effect of the North Atlantic Subpolar Front as a Boundary in Pelagic Biogeography Decreases with Increasing Depth and Organism Size Vecchione, Michael Falkenhaug, Tone Sutton, Tracey Cook, April Gislason, Astthor Hansen, Hege Overbo Heino, Mikko Miller, Peter I. Piatkowski, Uwe Porteiro, Filipe M. Soiland, Henrik Bergstad, Odd Aksel 2015-11-01T07:00:00Z https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/745 unknown NSUWorks https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/745 Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles Marine Biology Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology article 2015 ftnsoutheastern 2022-04-10T21:45:08Z Broad-scale patterns in the distribution of deep-sea pelagic species and communities are poorly known. An important question is whether biogeographic boundaries identified from surface features are important in the deep mesopelagic and bathypelagic. We present community analyses of discrete-depth samples of mesozooplankton and micronekton to full-ocean depth collected in the area where the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is crossed by the Subpolar Front. The results show that the distributional discontinuity associated with the front, which is strong near the surface, decreases with increasing depth. Both the frontal separation near the surface and the community convergence at increasing depths were clearer for mesozooplankton than for micronekton. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Nova Southeastern University: NSU Works Mid-Atlantic Ridge |
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Marine Biology Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology Vecchione, Michael Falkenhaug, Tone Sutton, Tracey Cook, April Gislason, Astthor Hansen, Hege Overbo Heino, Mikko Miller, Peter I. Piatkowski, Uwe Porteiro, Filipe M. Soiland, Henrik Bergstad, Odd Aksel The Effect of the North Atlantic Subpolar Front as a Boundary in Pelagic Biogeography Decreases with Increasing Depth and Organism Size |
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Broad-scale patterns in the distribution of deep-sea pelagic species and communities are poorly known. An important question is whether biogeographic boundaries identified from surface features are important in the deep mesopelagic and bathypelagic. We present community analyses of discrete-depth samples of mesozooplankton and micronekton to full-ocean depth collected in the area where the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is crossed by the Subpolar Front. The results show that the distributional discontinuity associated with the front, which is strong near the surface, decreases with increasing depth. Both the frontal separation near the surface and the community convergence at increasing depths were clearer for mesozooplankton than for micronekton. |
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Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Vecchione, Michael Falkenhaug, Tone Sutton, Tracey Cook, April Gislason, Astthor Hansen, Hege Overbo Heino, Mikko Miller, Peter I. Piatkowski, Uwe Porteiro, Filipe M. Soiland, Henrik Bergstad, Odd Aksel |
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Vecchione, Michael Falkenhaug, Tone Sutton, Tracey Cook, April Gislason, Astthor Hansen, Hege Overbo Heino, Mikko Miller, Peter I. Piatkowski, Uwe Porteiro, Filipe M. Soiland, Henrik Bergstad, Odd Aksel |
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Vecchione, Michael |
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The Effect of the North Atlantic Subpolar Front as a Boundary in Pelagic Biogeography Decreases with Increasing Depth and Organism Size |
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The Effect of the North Atlantic Subpolar Front as a Boundary in Pelagic Biogeography Decreases with Increasing Depth and Organism Size |
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The Effect of the North Atlantic Subpolar Front as a Boundary in Pelagic Biogeography Decreases with Increasing Depth and Organism Size |
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The Effect of the North Atlantic Subpolar Front as a Boundary in Pelagic Biogeography Decreases with Increasing Depth and Organism Size |
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The Effect of the North Atlantic Subpolar Front as a Boundary in Pelagic Biogeography Decreases with Increasing Depth and Organism Size |
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effect of the north atlantic subpolar front as a boundary in pelagic biogeography decreases with increasing depth and organism size |
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