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    Diel vertical migration (DVM), also known as diurnal vertical migration, is a pattern of movement used by some organisms, such as copepods, living in...
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    migrations. The bull shark is a euryhaline species that moves at will from fresh to salt water, and many marine fish make a diel vertical migration,...
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  • oxygenated layer of the water column. Diel vertical migrations can span 80-180 meters in depth. The bottom of the migration tends to remain consistent temperatures...
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  • communities. Some bathypelagic species undergo vertical migration, which differs from the diel vertical migration of mesopelagic species in that it is not driven...
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    is a vertical migration that occurs with a 24-hour periodicity. This has often been referred to as diurnal or diel vertical migration. The vertical distance...
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    viperfish grows to lengths of 30 cm (12 in). Viperfishes undergo diel vertical migration and are found all around the world in tropical and temperate oceans...
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    As with many mesopelagic species, Maurolicus muelleri undergoes diel vertical migration (DVM), however this behaviour is more complex and varied in M....
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    extra weight of a shell and ascending the water column for the diel vertical migration. The power-stroke for L. helicina starts with a sharp rotation...
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    is reported as being either mesopelagic or bathypelagic, with diel vertical migration to shallower waters. The Pacific viperfish is one of the nine different...
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  • deeper export. Another key process occurring in this zone is the diel vertical migration of certain species, which move between the euphotic zone and mesopelagic...
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    turtles and the factors controlling zooplankton diel vertical migration, the largest animal migration on Earth. Hays has been named one of the most highly...
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    they are one of the several species of squid that participates in diel vertical migration. For this reason, they also experience a significant change in...
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    can weigh between 13–15 grams. Females are believed to make a diel vertical migration from deeper than 500 metres (1,600 ft) by day to surface waters...
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  • mesopelagic zone). Micronekton shows a diverse range of migration patterns including diel vertical migration over several hundreds of metres from below 400 m...
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  • respiration Bait ball Bottom feeders Cleaner fish Corallivory Diel vertical migration Electric fish Filter feeders Forage fish Migratory Paedophagy Predatory...
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    low light conditions. It is one of the few sharks that conduct a diel vertical migration, staying in deep water during the day and moving into surface waters...
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    bottom. It can be seen to rise and fall each day in keeping with diel vertical migration. Sonar operators, using the newly developed sonar technology during...
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    sequestration of the lipid pump is decoupled from nutrient removal. Diel Vertical Migration (DVM) is a well-studied phenomenon, widespread in the temperate...
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    movement and can swim hundreds of meters vertically in a single day (a behavior called diel vertical migration), their horizontal position is primarily...
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  • virtual machine, formerly used in the Android operating system Diel vertical migration, a pattern of movement used by some organisms Digital voltmeter...
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    cephalopods, smaller sharks, and bony fish, the frilled shark practices diel vertical migration to feed at night at the surface of the ocean. When hunting food...
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    currents, many have locomotion, used to avoid predators (as in diel vertical migration) or to increase prey encounter rate. Just as any species can be...
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    are dark brown to black. Lanternfish are well known for their diel vertical migrations: during daylight hours, most species remain within the gloomy bathypelagic...
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    formation of thin layers. Many zooplankton normally exhibit a diel vertical migration (DVM) pattern that dictates their depth in the water column based...
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    towards the surface, although they do not appear to do so in a diel vertical migration pattern. Other species, such as Cyclothone acclinadens, are believed...
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  • Diel vertical migration, vertical migration is a pattern of 24 hours cyclic movement used by some organisms living in oceans and lakes. Adrian Diel (1756–1839)...
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    2,300 ft). Electronic tagging has shown that they also undergo diel vertical migrations which bring them closer to the surface from dusk to dawn. They...
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    Diurnal cycle (redirect from Diel cycle)
    closer to 12 hours and 25 minutes. Chronotype Circadian rhythm Diel vertical migration Diurnality Diurnal Climate [de] Betts, A (2015). "BOUNDARY LAYER...
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  • undergoes reverse diel vertical migration, descending during the night, and ascending during the day, although it may undergo normal or no migration at all depending...
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    dragonfishes. They live in the mesopelagic zone of all oceans and show diel vertical migration and sexual dimorphism (males are smaller, have larger eyes and...
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