Marine teleost fishes often experience over 99% mortality in the early life stages (eggs and larvae), yet larval survival is essential to population sustainability. Marine fish larvae from a wide range of families display elaborate, delicate features that bear little resemblance to adult forms and hinder their swimming escape ability...
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survival
strategy in the plankton
Adam T. Greer1,4,*, C. Brock Woodson1, CedricM. Guigand2, Robert K
Marine teleost fishes often experience over 99% mortality in the early life stages (eggs and larvae), yet larval survival is essential to population sustainability. Marine fish larvae from a wide range of families display elaborate, delicate features that bear little resemblance to adult forms and hinder their swimming escape ability...
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Woodson, CedricM. Guigand, Robert K. Cowen
*Corresponding author: adam.t.greer@gmail.com
Marine Ecology
Ocean fronts represent productive regions of the ocean, but predator-prey interactions within these features are
poorly understood partially due to the coarse-scale and biases of net-based sampling methods. We used the In
Situ Ichthyoplankton Imaging System (ISIIS) to sample across a front near the Georges Bank shelf edge on two...
Marine teleost fishes often experience over 99% mortality in the early life stages (eggs and larvae), yet larval survival is essential to population sustainability. Marine fish larvae from a wide range of families display elaborate, delicate features that bear little resemblance to adult forms and hinder their swimming escape ability...
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traits, linked larval traits
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Marine teleost fishes often experience over 99% mortality in the early life stages (eggs and larvae), yet larval survival is essential to population sustainability. Marine fish larvae from a wide range of families display elaborate, delicate features that bear little resemblance to adult forms and hinder their swimming escape ability...
Mesoscale fronts occur frequently in many coastal areas and often are sites of elevated
productivity; however, knowledge of the fine-scale distribution of zooplankton at these
fronts is lacking, particularly within the mid-trophic levels. Furthermore, small (<13 cm) gelatinous
zooplankton are ubiquitous, but are under-studied, and their abundances underestimated
due to...
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, CedricM. Guigand1, Sam McClatchie4, Robert K. Cowen1,5
1Marine Biology and Fisheries, Rosenstiel School
Mesoscale fronts occur frequently in many coastal areas and often are sites of elevated
productivity; however, knowledge of the fine-scale distribution of zooplankton at these
fronts is lacking, particularly within the mid-trophic levels. Furthermore, small (<13 cm) gelatinous
zooplankton are ubiquitous, but are under-studied, and their abundances underestimated
due to...
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-Olivier Irisson2,
Adam T. Greer1,3, CedricM. Guigand1, Sam McClatchie4, Robert K. Cowen1,5
1Marine
Mesoscale fronts occur frequently in many coastal areas and often are sites of elevated productivity; however, knowledge of the fine-scale distribution of zooplankton at these fronts is lacking, particularly within the mid-trophic levels. Furthermore, small (<13 cm) gelatinous zooplankton are ubiquitous, but are under-studied, and their abundances underestimated due to...
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