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2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 595-608
Author(s):  
L M HELLENBRECHT ◽  
M FREESE ◽  
J-D POHLMANN ◽  
H WESTERBERG ◽  
T BLANCKE ◽  
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Abstract Sunfishes or Molidae are a rarely encountered family within the teleost order Tetraodontiformes and most details of their reproductive biology including times and places of spawning and their larval ecology are rather unclear. Spawning of two species of Molidae was suggested in the Sargasso Sea before, yet comprehensive data on larval distribution from this area or elsewhere have never been published. Here we report on the abundance and size distribution of 383 sharptail mola (Masturus lanceolatus) and slender sunfish (Ranzania laevis) larvae, present novel information on their larval growth and development and test correlations with prevailing hydrographic data. Only 18 mostly larger Masturus larvae were caught evenly distributed over the study area and with no obvious hydrographic preferences. We conclude that there was no active spawning of M. lanceolatus in the area during the time of the cruise. In contrast, Ranzania larvae were caught primarily inside and south of a thermal frontal zone with increasing abundances toward warmer surface layers in the southeast of the study area. Due to the consistent presence of young Ranzania, it can be assumed that spawning activity was ongoing throughout the month of April, 2015. Our findings confirm the Sargasso Sea as a spawning area for R. laevis.


2019 ◽  
Vol 102 (10) ◽  
pp. 1231-1252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Miller ◽  
Lasse Marohn ◽  
Klaus Wysujack ◽  
Sylvain Bonhommeau ◽  
Mari Kuroki ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kam W Tang ◽  
Liv Backhaus ◽  
Lasse Riemann ◽  
Marja Koski ◽  
Hans-Peter Grossart ◽  
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Abstract The oligotrophic subtropical gyre covers a vast area of the Atlantic Ocean. Decades of time-series monitoring have generated detailed temporal information about zooplankton species and abundances at fixed locations within the gyre, but their live/dead status is often omitted, especially in the dynamic subtropical convergence zone (STCZ) where the water column stratification pattern can change considerably across the front as warm and cold water masses converge. We conducted a detailed survey in the North Atlantic STCZ and showed that over 85% of the copepods were typically concentrated in the upper 200 m. Copepod carcasses were present in all samples and their proportional numerical abundances increased with depth, reaching up to 91% at 300–400 m. Overall, 14–19% of the copepods within the upper 200 m were carcasses. Shipboard experiments showed that during carcass decomposition, microbial respiration increased, and the bacterial community associated with the carcasses diverged from that in the ambient water. Combining field and experimental data, we estimated that decomposing copepod carcasses constitute a negligible oxygen sink in the STCZ, but sinking carcasses may represent an overlooked portion of the passive carbon sinking flux and should be incorporated in future studies of carbon flux in this area.


2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 901-923 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria I. Garcia-Rojas ◽  
K. Curt S. Jenner ◽  
Peter C. Gill ◽  
Micheline-Nicole M. Jenner ◽  
Alicia L. Sutton ◽  
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