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A shallow scattering layer structures the energy seascape of an open ocean predator
Arostegui, M.C.; Muhling, B.; Culhane, E.; Dewar, H.; Koch, S.; Braun, C.D. (2023). A shallow scattering layer structures the energy seascape of an open ocean predator. Science Advances 9(40): eadi8200. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi8200
In: Science Advances. AAAS: New York. ISSN 2375-2548; e-ISSN 2375-2548
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  • Arostegui, M.C.
  • Muhling, B.
  • Culhane, E.
  • Dewar, H.
  • Koch, S.
  • Braun, C.D.
Abstract
    Large predators frequent the open ocean where subsurface light drives visually based trophic interactions. However, we lack knowledge on how predators achieve energy balance in the unproductive open ocean where prey biomass is minimal in well-lit surface waters but high in dim midwaters in the form of scattering layers. We use an interdisciplinary approach to assess how the bioenergetics of scattering layer forays by a model predator vary across biomes. We show that the mean metabolic cost rate of daytime deep foraging dives to scattering layers decreases as much as 26% from coastal to pelagic biomes. The more favorable energetics offshore are enabled by the addition of a shallow scattering layer that, if not present, would otherwise necessitate costlier dives to deeper layers. The unprecedented importance of this shallow scattering layer challenges assumptions that the globally ubiquitous primary deep scattering layer constitutes the only mesopelagic resource regularly targeted by apex predators.
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