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The Food of Deep-Sea Copepods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

G. C. H. Harding
G. C. H. Harding*
Affiliation:
Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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*Present address: Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Marine Ecology Laboratory, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
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The question of how organisms living below 1000 metres depth in the oceans obtain food in sufficient quantity to survive has lately received a lot of attention (Vinogradov, 1968; Sanders & Hessler, 1969; Fournier, 1972). The oldest and simplest theory, first advocated by Agassiz (1888), is that deep-sea organisms are nourished by a ‘rain’ of organic detritus from overlying surface waters. Detritus is defined to include all organic particles, living and dead, which sink passively. An alternate proposal by Riley (1951), Vinogradov (1962) and Wickstead (1962) is that the main supply of food for deep-sea plankton is conveyed from the euphotic zone by overlapping vertical migratory plankters.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , February 1974 , pp. 141 - 155
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1974

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