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Chapter 6: Biomes: The Primary Partition
Table 6.1. Relative composition of zooplankton in coastal and oceanic biomes derived from data on >4000 samples held
in the Smithsonian and Kuroshio Plankton Sorting Centers. Gelatinous predators are medusae and siphonophores; raptorial
predators are chaetognaths and some genera of cladocerans and copepods, with all amphipods, annelids, and gymnosomes;
macro-filtering herbivores are some genera of cladocerans, copepods, and thecosomatous mollusks; gelatinous herbivores
are tunicates, appendiculaians, and doliolids with mucous-net filtration; omnivores are some genera of copepods, some
euphausiids, all mysids, and penaeids; detritivores are all ostracods.
Medusae var.
Siphonophora
Chaetognatha
Polychaeta
Cladocera
Ostracoda
Copepoda
Amphipoda
Mysidae
Euphausiidae
Penaeidae
Pteropoda
Appendiculariae
Salpida
Doliolida
N individuals (%)
OCEANIC
Polar
0.06 0.15 3.88 0.23 0.00 2.45 86.32 0.56 0.00
0.52
0.02
2.44 3.32 0.02 0.00
Westerlies 1.39 0.45 3.99 0.54 0.47 3.12 80.45 0.81 0.02
2.77
0.33
1.76 2.79 0.52 0.12
Trades
0.85 2.61 6.38 0.85 0.14 3.39 72.31 0.54 0.15
3.02
0.30
1.70 3.85 2.10 0.66
COASTAL
Westerlies 0.22 0.59 3.32 0.39 7.07 0.31 80.10 0.78 0.07
1.02
0.27
1.50 3.51 0.46 0.05
Trades
0.67 2.11 5.83 0.43 6.46 5.72 62.95 0.82 0.02
1.17
3.15
0.60 5.45 5.15 0.10
Carbon biomass (%)
OCEANIC
Polar
0.23 0.75 8.62 0.47 0.00 3.05 67.58 4.57 0.00
7.66
0.13
6.73 0.18 0.03 0.00
Westerlies 3.28 1.78 8.62 0.47 0.00 3.05 67.58 4.57 0.00
7.66
0.13
6.73 0.18 0.03 0.00
Trades
1.98 8.51 9.00 1.10 0.01 2.61 33.13 2.58 0.00 30.21
5.02
2.66 0.10 2.89 0.01
COASTAL
Westerlies 0.62 2.66 6.51 0.79 0.78 0.28 64.66 5.22 0.00 11.79
1.11
4.83 0.17 0.80 0.00
Trades
1.39 7.88 9.81 0.64 0.48 4.98 37.51 4.25 0.00 10.67 15.26 1.15 0.18 5.80 0.00
Chapter 6: Biomes: The Primary Partition
Table 6.1. Relative composition of zooplankton in coastal and oceanic biomes derived from data on >4000 samples held
in the Smithsonian and Kuroshio Plankton Sorting Centers. Gelatinous predators are medusae and siphonophores; raptorial
predators are chaetognaths and some genera of cladocerans and copepods, with all amphipods, annelids, and gymnosomes;
macro-filtering herbivores are some genera of cladocerans, copepods, and thecosomatous mollusks; gelatinous herbivores
are tunicates, appendiculaians, and doliolids with mucous-net filtration; omnivores are some genera of copepods, some
euphausiids, all mysids, and penaeids; detritivores are all ostracods.
Medusae var.
Siphonophora
Chaetognatha
Polychaeta
Cladocera
Ostracoda
Copepoda
Amphipoda
Mysidae
Euphausiidae
Penaeidae
Pteropoda
Appendiculariae
Salpida
Doliolida
N individuals (%)
OCEANIC
Polar
0.06 0.15 3.88 0.23 0.00 2.45 86.32 0.56 0.00
0.52
0.02
2.44 3.32 0.02 0.00
Westerlies 1.39 0.45 3.99 0.54 0.47 3.12 80.45 0.81 0.02
2.77
0.33
1.76 2.79 0.52 0.12
Trades
0.85 2.61 6.38 0.85 0.14 3.39 72.31 0.54 0.15
3.02
0.30
1.70 3.85 2.10 0.66
COASTAL
Westerlies 0.22 0.59 3.32 0.39 7.07 0.31 80.10 0.78 0.07
1.02
0.27
1.50 3.51 0.46 0.05
Trades
0.67 2.11 5.83 0.43 6.46 5.72 62.95 0.82 0.02
1.17
3.15
0.60 5.45 5.15 0.10
Carbon biomass (%)
OCEANIC
Polar
0.23 0.75 8.62 0.47 0.00 3.05 67.58 4.57 0.00
7.66
0.13
6.73 0.18 0.03 0.00
Westerlies 3.28 1.78 8.62 0.47 0.00 3.05 67.58 4.57 0.00
7.66
0.13
6.73 0.18 0.03 0.00
Trades
1.98 8.51 9.00 1.10 0.01 2.61 33.13 2.58 0.00 30.21
5.02
2.66 0.10 2.89 0.01
COASTAL
Westerlies 0.62 2.66 6.51 0.79 0.78 0.28 64.66 5.22 0.00 11.79
1.11
4.83 0.17 0.80 0.00
Trades
1.39 7.88 9.81 0.64 0.48 4.98 37.51 4.25 0.00 10.67 15.26 1.15 0.18 5.80 0.00