A global review of pyrosomes: Shedding light on the ocean's elusive gelatinous “fire‐bodies”
Abstract Pyrosomes are colonial tunicates that form gelatinous tubes and occasionally produce bioluminescent swarms. The rapid “bloom‐bust” dynamics of pyrosomes have the potential to outcompete other zooplankton, restructure marine food webs, enhance carbon export, and interfere with human activiti...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2023-12-01
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Series: | Limnology and Oceanography Letters |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10350 |