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Thin layers of bioluminescent copepods found at density discontinuities in the water column
| Title: | Thin layers of bioluminescent copepods found at density discontinuities in the water column. |
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| Name(s): |
Widder, Edith A., creator Johnsen, Sonke, creator Bernstein, S. A., creator Case, J. F., creator Neilson, D. J., creator Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Article | |
| Issuance: | single unit | |
| Date Issued: | 1999 | |
| Publisher: | Springer-Verlag. | |
| Extent: | 10 p. | |
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| Language(s): | English | |
| Identifier: | 2795600 (digitool), FADT2795600 (IID), fau:5532 (fedora), 10.1007/s002270050559 (doi) | |
| Note(s): |
To learn how organisms apportion space in the open ocean, biological oceanographers have sought to improve temporal and spatial resolution of ocean sampling systems. Their objectives are to simultaneously measure physical, chemical and biological structure in the water column in order to find significant correlations that may reveal underlying processes. Here we report one such correlation between intense peaks of bioluminescence and density discontinuities in the water column. Intensified video recordings made in these bioluminescent “hot spots” were analyzed with a computer image-recognition program that identifies organisms based on the temporal and spatial characteristics of their luminescent displays. Based on this analysis, the source of the “hot spots” was found to be very thin layers (0.5 m) of the bioluminescent copepod Metridia lucens present at from 5 to 100 times average background concentrations. This manuscript is a version of an article with the final publicationfound online at http://www.springerlink.com and may be cited as: Widder, E. A., S. Johnsen, S. A.Bernstein, J. F. Case and D. J. Neilson (1999) Thin layers of bioluminescent copepods found at densitydiscontinuities in the water column, Marine Biology 134:429-437 doi: 10.1007/s002270050559 Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #1281. |
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| Subject(s): |
Biological oceanography Bioluminescence Marine animals --Food |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2795600 | |
| Links: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002270050559 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | ©1999 Springer-Verlag. | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
