The Biology of the Benthopelagic Component of the Shallow Scattering Layer

Abstract

Each night, large numbers of animals (particularly crustaceans) swim out of the seabed into the water column, a phenomenon termed "emergence." The distribution of these optical and acoustic scatterers is not well known in time and space. The cues that trigger the behavior, the environmental factors that modulate it, and the underlying ecological mechanisms that drive it are just beginning to be elucidated. My long-term goal is to understand this phenomenon to the point that variation in space and time are predictable and mechanistically understood.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2002
Accession Number
ADA628543

Entities

People

  • David Thistle

Organizations

  • Florida State University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Animals
  • Construction
  • Crustaceans
  • Design Criteria
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Eukaryotes
  • Fabrication
  • Heterogeneity
  • High Energy
  • Information Operations
  • Oceanography
  • Scattering
  • Standards
  • Statistical Tests
  • Time Intervals
  • Universities

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Oncology (Cancer Research).

Technology Areas

  • Space