Larvaceans are gelatinous zooplankton abundant throughout the ocean. Larvaceans have
been overlooked in research because they are difficult to collect and are perceived as being …

Abstract Deibel, D., and Lowen, B. 2012. A review of the life cycles and life-history
adaptations of pelagic tunicates to environmental conditions.–ICES Journal of Marine …

The pelagic tunicates, gelatinous zooplankton that include salps, doliolids, and
appendicularians, are filter feeding grazers thought to produce a significant amount of …

Zooplankton plays a major role in ocean food webs and biogeochemical cycles, and
provides major ecosystem services as a main driver of the biological carbon pump and in …

Climate change, including ocean acidification (OA), presents fundamental challenges to
marine biodiversity and sustained ecosystem health. We determined reproductive response …

All organisms grow. Numerous growth functions have been applied to a wide taxonomic
range of organisms, yet some of these models have poor fits to empirical data and lack of …

Gelatinous zooplankton are increasingly recognized to play a key role in the ocean's
biological carbon pump. Appendicularians, a class of pelagic tunicates, are among the most …

Since the Discovery Investigations of the 1920s and 1930s, seawater temperatures have
increased in the Atlantic sector by∼ 1° C; greater than the global mean rise. The aims of this …

Feeding dynamics of the Antarctic salps Ihlea racovitzai and Salpa thompsoni were studied
in the Lazarev Sea in fall 2004, summer 2005–2006 and winter 2006. Pigment …

Appendicularian tunicates are some of the most abundant mesozooplankton organisms with
key roles in marine trophic webs and global carbon flux. Like most appendicularians with …