Formation of Marine Biological Thin Layers: Recruitment of Zooplankton

Abstract

Our long term goal is to understand bioluminescent plankton spatial and temporal distributions, and how these distributions affect plankton sensory interactions. Current interest is in how these interactions might be involved in "thin layers". The central objective was to measure bioluminescence in association with thin layers, since this has never been attempted, which required: 1) measuring the vertical distribution of excitable bioluminescence across thin layers; and 2) determining the plankton species responsible for bioluminescence in the vicinity of thin layers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1998
Accession Number
ADA535216

Entities

People

  • Alice L. Alldredge
  • James Case
  • Sally Macintyre

Organizations

  • University of California, Santa Barbara

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aquatic Organisms
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Bioluminescence
  • California
  • Data Analysis
  • Detectors
  • Electronic Mail
  • Field Tests
  • Fluorescence
  • Marine Biology
  • Oceanography
  • Plankton
  • Underwater Vehicles
  • Universities
  • Water
  • Zooplankton

Fields of Study

  • Biology

Readers

  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Microbial Pathology
  • Oceanography.