Is ambient light during the high Arctic polar night sufficient to act as a visual cue for zooplankton?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Cohen, Jonathan H ^c   Berge, Jørgen ^a,b   Moline, Mark A ^c   Sørensen, Asgeir J ^d   Last, Kim ^e   Falk Petersen, Stig ^b,f   Renaud, Paul E ^a,f   Leu, Eva S ^f   Grenvald, Julie ^a,b   Cottier, Finlo ^e   Cronin, Heather ^a,c   Menze, Sebastian ^a   Norgren, Petter ^d   Varpe, Øystein ^a,f   Daase, Malin ^b   Darnis, Gerald ^f   Johnsen, Geir ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; KRILL; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIGHT IRRADIANCE; LIGHT SCATTERING; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SUNLIGHT; SURFACE PROPERTY; THYSANOESSA INERMIS; VISUAL THRESHOLD; ZOOPLANKTON; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA;

THYSANOESSA INERMIS;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 84931287992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126247     Document Type: Article

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