The Association between Stomach Fullness and Vertical Migration Behavior in Deep-Pelagic Crustaceans and Fishes in the Gulf of Mexico, with Notes on Microplastic Ingestion
This thesis presents: 1) the first statistically rigorous support for the longstanding hypothesis that state of satiation modifies diel vertical migration patterns of deep-sea micronektonic crustaceans and fishes; and, 2) the first assessment of microplastic ingestion by deep-pelagic micronekton in...
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NSUWorks
2019
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| Online Access: | https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/502 https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1512&context=occ_stuetd |