The role of salps in marine ecosystem function

The role of salps in marine ecosystem function - UNSW

Salps also consume phytoplankton and bacteria that are at the bottom of the food chain (Muller, 1983), allowing them to respond quickly to increases in primary ...

Review Rethinking the Role of Salps in the Ocean - ScienceDirect.com

We show that salps play a major role in carbon sequestration and are key components of marine food webs as a food source for at least 202 species.

The Watery World of Salps - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

There are about fifty species of salps in different parts of the ocean. Some look like little tubes, some like long snakes, and some almost like chandeliers ...

The Outsized Role of Salps in Carbon Export in the Subarctic ...

Periodic blooms of salps (pelagic tunicates) can result in high export of organic matter, leading to an “outsized” role in the ocean's biological carbon pump ( ...

FSU researchers uncover new role for strange organisms in ocean ...

Salps are also a food source for some marine animals, but they don't provide much nutrition. Their importance to the marine food web is eclipsed ...

An assessment of environmental and ecological drivers of salp ...

Previous studies have shown that salps are a preferred food source for 149 known species of fish, and they are consumed by a diverse range of marine predators, ...

Rethinking the Role of Salps in the Ocean - Cell Press

We show that salps play a major role in carbon sequestration and are key components of marine food webs as a food source for at least 202 species including fish ...

The impact of salps (Salpa thompsoni) on the Antarctic krill ...

Krill (Euphausia superba) and salps (Salpa thompsoni) are key macrozooplankton grazers in the Southern Ocean ecosystem.

Characterizing salps as predators of marine microbes - EurekAlert!

According to the authors, salps play a major role in controlling the abundances and function of microbial communities in the vast nutrient-poor ...

Transparent Animal May Play Overlooked Role in the Ocean

This enhances the transport of carbon away from the atmosphere. In 2004 and 2006, Madin and Kremer studied salp swarms in a different ecosystem, ...

Size‐specific grazing and competitive interactions between large ...

Indeed, salps can feed at one of the highest predator : prey size ratios (> 10,000 : 1) of any organism in the ocean (Kremer and Madin 1992; ...

Salp blooms drive strong increases in passive carbon export in the ...

Salps in the Southern Ocean, in particular Salpa thompsoni, are important grazers that produce large, fast-sinking fecal pellets.

Salp blooms disrupt food webs.

LS2.C: Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience. ○ A complex set of ... ○ Article on the role of salps in ocean ecosystems. This article talks ...

Rethinking the Role of Salps in the Ocean - ResearchGate

We show that salps play a major role in carbon sequestration and are key components of marine food webs as a food source for at least 202 species including fish ...

Molecular Analysis of Predator Scats Reveals Role of Salps in ...

High precision, high coverage DNA-based diet analysis tools allow great insight into the food web interactions of cryptic taxa.

Ubiquitous filter feeders shape open ocean microbial community ...

We found that salps play a unique role in the biogeochemical function and ecosystem structure of the open oceans through selective feeding on ...

Salp - Anatomy, Habitat, Diet, Life Cycle, and Pictures

Salps or salpa (also known colloquially as 'sea grape') are small, barrel-shaped marine invertebrates that belong to the family Salpidae within the order ...

Rethinking the Role of Salps in the Ocean - Cell Press

Linking the trophic fingerprint of groundfishes to ecosystem structure and function in the California Current. Ecosystems. 2013; 16:1216-1229.

A temperature‐controlled, circular maintenance system for studying ...

Salps have attracted attention as zooplankton organisms that may be able to expand their habitat range and increase their ecological ...

Salps are poop-machines and pyrosomes can light up the sea!

Salps and pyrosomes are zooplankton – free floating animals that drift with the ocean currents. They are unique because they have gelatinous ...