Organisms associated with stimulated epipelagic bioluminescence in the Sargasso Sea and the Gulf Stream |
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Authors: | Swift, Elijah Lessard, Evelyn J. Biggley, William H. |
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Affiliation: | 1Graduate School of Oceanography and Department of Botany, University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881, USA 2Graduate School Of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881, USA 3Biology Department, The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218, USA |
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Abstract: | On three cruises, vertical profiles of stimulated bioluminescencewere measured during the late evening in the upper 200 m ofthe Sargasso Sea using a submarine photometer. On one cruise,organisms were collected in a 25 µm porosity net afterpassing through the photometer where the intensity and lightcontent of their bioluminescence were recorded. Correlationsof bioluminescence and organisms suggested that the majorityof the stimulated bioluminescence produced in the Sargasso Seawas from zooplankton: crustaceans (ostracods, copepods, copepodlarvae, euphausid larvae), larvaceans and colonial radiolarians.In addition, the photosynthetic dinoflagellate Pyrocystis noctilucaappeared to produce 530% of the measured bioluminescenceat some stations. Other dinoflagellates, although numerous,were dim and thus produced less than a few percent of the stimulatedbioluminescent light. The subsurface peaks in the Gulf Streamand northern Sargasso Sea were due primarily to ostracods andlarvaceans. In the Anegada Passage in October, and in the northernSargasso Sea and the Gulf Stream in August, there were pronouncedsubsurface peaks in bioluminescence associated with the thermocline.In Anegada Passage and the Sargasso Sea just north of PuertoRico in October, and in the Gulf Stream in August, the subsurfacebioluminescence peak was in or slightly above the chlorophyllmaximum. However, at the Sargasso Sea stations in August, itwas 1040 m above the depth of the chlorophyll maximum. |
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