Distribution and abundance of net-captured calycophoran siphonophores and other gelatinous zooplankton in the Sargasso Sea European eel spawning area

• Published in: Marine Biodiversity
• Main Authors: Lüskow, Florian, Neitzel, Philipp, Miller, Michael J., Marohn, Lasse, Wysujack, Klaus, Freese, Marko, Pohlmann, Jan-Dag, Hanel, Reinhold
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Text; ddc:570; Western North Atlantic Ocean > Co-occurrence > Leptocephalus diet > Anguilla > Net sampling; Mitra; Anguilla anguilla; European eel; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-019-00971-x; https://www.openagrar.de/receive/openagrar_mods_00053869; https://www.openagrar.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/openagrar_derivate_00025419/dn061061.pdf

Gelatinous zooplankton (GZ) such as medusae, ctenophores, siphonophores, pyrosomes and salps are important components of oceanic pelagic communities and small calycophoran siphonophores (CS) are typically abundant at shallow depths. The Sargasso Sea spawning area of the Atlantic catadromous freshwat...