Visual predators and the diel vertical migration of copepods under Arctic sea ice during the midnight sun

• Published in: Journal of Plankton Research
• Main Authors: Fortier, M, Fortier, L, Hattori, H, Saito, H, Legendre, L
• Other Authors: Université Laval Québec (ULaval), Laboratoire d'océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (IMEV), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2001
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography; Arctic; Barrow Strait; Arctic cod; Boreogadus saida; Calanus hyperboreus; Sea ice; Themisto; Themisto libellula; Copepods; midnight sun
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03483043; https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/23.11.1263

International audience Despite the midnight sun, herbivore copepods Calanus hyperboreus, C. glacialis and Pseudocalanus acuspes displayed a normal diel vertical migration (NDVM) under the ice cover of Barrow Strait in spring, ascending into the chlorophyll-rich under-ice surface layer around maximum...