During the day, animals in the DSL inhabit the mesopelagic zone. But when the sun sets ... that "the overlap in ongoing fishing effort and pelagic predator distributions, expected climate-induced ...

The migrating animals feed on photosynthetic phytoplankton nearer the surface, which have absorbed atmospheric carbon dioxide. The creatures then return to the deep pelagic zone, where they ...

efforts to assess the density of microplastics in the pelagic zone are expensive and difficult. Choy and her team also found confirming evidence that small filter-feeding ocean animals ...