Long-term time-series study of salp population dynamics in the Sargasso Sea

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: Stone, Joshua P., Steinberg, Deborah K.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: W&M ScholarWorks 2014
• Subjects: Salps; Thaliacea; Jellyfish blooms; Gelatinous zooplankton; Mesoscale eddies; Biological Sciences Peer-Reviewed Articles; Marine Biology; Oceanography; Pacific; Thalia; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/vimsarticles/1829; https://scholarworks.wm.edu/context/vimsarticles/article/2830/viewcontent/m510p111.pdf

Salps are bloom-forming, pelagic tunicates with high grazing rates on phytoplankton, with the potential to greatly increase vertical particle flux through rapidly sinking fecal pellets. However, the frequency and causes of salp blooms are not well known. We quantified salps from day and night zoopla...