Posted on OA: 17 Apr 2015 Dosidicus gigas (d’Orbigny, 1835) is a large, active squid that undergoes a diel vertical migration in the Eastern Tropical and Temperate Pacific. It is a voracious predator on zooplankton and micronekton and supports a large fishery. It is further preyed upon by large
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Changes in pteropod distributions and shell dissolution across a frontal system in the California Current System
Posted on OA: 17 Apr 2015 — Bednaršek N. & Ohman M. D., 2015. Marine Ecology Progress Series 523:93-103 We tested the sensitivity of the vertical distributions and shell dissolution patterns of thecosome pteropods to spatial gradients associated with an eddy-associated front in the southern California Current System. The
Effects of elevated CO2 levels on eggs and larvae of a North Pacific flatfish
Posted on OA: 16 Apr 2015 The Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska support a number of commercially important flatfish fisheries. These high latitude ecosystems are predicted to be most immediately impacted by ongoing ocean acidification, but the range of responses by commercial fishery species has yet to be
Experimental ocean acidification alters the allocation of metabolic energy
T.-C. Francis Pan1, Scott L. Applebaum1, and Donal T. Manahan2 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 — www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1416967112 Energy is required to maintain physiological homeostasis in response to environmental change. Although responses to environmental stressors frequently are assumed to involve high metabolic costs, the biochemical bases
Detecting changes in marine responses to ENSO from 850 to 2100 C.E.: Insights from the ocean carbon cycle
Posted on OA: 9 Apr 2015 It is open whether El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) varies under climate change and how potential changes in the marine system are detectable. Here differences in the influence of ENSO on biogeochemical tracers, pH, productivity, and ocean temperature are analyzed in a continuous 850–2100
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