sábado, 6 de junio de 2009

Interesting paper

Today, a very interesting paper about the vertical migration of zooplankton and micronekton. Exploring the literature, I found a paper describing the movements of the deep scattering layers (DSLs)in relation to illumination. The interesting thing was the observation made by the author, Hilary Moore, about the effect of the lunar illumination on the vertical distribution of the DSLs. She found that at full moon the DSLs move downward because of the increase in light at the surface layers. The most impresive is that this paper was published in 1950!! So, now, almost 60 years after, we are starting to understand the consequences of this migration. Compulsory for those interested in the lunar cycles (AOR).


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