Chitin is widely distributed in nature and its annual production is thought to be huge.
However, the chitin production has been rarely estimated in aquatic ecosystems, despite the …

Integrating behavior and physiology is critical to formulating new hypotheses on the
evolution of animal life-history strategies. Migratory capital breeders acquire most of the …

The present perspective summarizes information on the variability of krill population
parameters, which can assist in interpreting fluctuations in euphausiid populations. This …

Micronekton are relatively small, but actively swimming, organisms ranging in size (2–10
cm) between plankton, which mostly drift with the currents, to the larger nekton, which have …

The devil-ray family Mobulidae (order Myliobatiformes) comprises wide-ranging, pelagic
batoids, but little is known about their basic ecology. We present the first data on the long …

I monitored the size composition, abundance, growth, reproductive biomass and productivity
characteristics of Euphausia pacifica in Barkley Sound, Canada, from March 1991 through …

El complejo lagunar de Bahía Magdalena-Almejas es uno de los ecosistemas lagunares
con mayor biodiversidad y atractivo ecoturístico y pesquero en el Estado de Baja California …

Nyctiphanes simplex is the most prominent neritic euphausiid along the southwest coast of
the Baja California peninsula, México. It was thought that this species is usually distributed …

Seasonal distribution of biomass and somatic growth, molt, and egg production rates of
Nyctiphanes simplex were estimated in the Gulf of California (November 2005, January …

Euphausiids are a major component of the zooplankton biomass due to their large size,
contributing with high carbon content to other trophic levels in the pelagic ecosystem. We …