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#tunas — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #tunas, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Why some #animals dive to the dark, #DeepSea phys.org/news/2023-11-animals-

    Linking vertical movements of large #pelagic predators with distribution patterns of #biomass in the open ocean pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2306

    "large predatory #fishes like #sharks, #tunas and #billfish make a surprising number of visits to the deep #ocean—particularly the #mesopelagic zone. This area, also called the ocean's #TwilightZone, has been overlooked as critical habitat for large #predator species"

  2. Integrating unique long-term datasets reveals how upwelling affects marine life from the surface to deep seafloor phys.org/news/2023-03-unique-l

    Coastal upwelling drives ecosystem temporal variability from the surface to the abyssal seafloor: Monique Messié et al. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2214

    "Influx of cool, nutrient-rich water fuels blooms of #plankton and kickstarts the food web. #Phytoplankton feed swarms of #krill, #zooplankton. These feed bigger #animals, including #salmon, #tunas, #BlueWhales."