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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023

Novel in situ imaging technology to explore the “ladder of vertical migrations” to the deep-sea

The pelagic deep ocean is the largest but least-understood habitat on Earth, harboring enormous fish stocks, a rich (and largely undiscovered) biodiversity, as well as a large carbon sink in the climate system. As almost all life at depth is ultimately nourished by primary production in the surface ocean, pathways of “vertical connectivity” are critical in linking ecological and biogeochemical processes across several thousands of meters. One of the most enigmatic phenomena is the so far virtually unexplored “ladder of vertical migrations”: this mechanism is hypothesized to link food-webs across the entire oceanic water column through a complex interplay of feeding-interactions and…

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