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The potential impact of the diversity of mesopelagic species on global carbon budgets in the ocean (DVM, diel vertical migration; NM, non-migration)

Modified from Sutton and Hopkins (1996), Catul et al. (2010), Choy et al. (2012), Battaglia et al. (2014) and Trueman et al. (2014):

• Sutton, T., and Hopkins, T. (1996). Trophic ecology of the stomiid (Pisces: Stomiidae) fish assemblage of the eastern Gulf of Mexico: strategies, selectivity and impact of a top mesopelagic predator group. Mar. Biol. 127, 179–192. doi: 10.1007/BF00942102
• Catul, V., Gauns, M., and Karuppasamy, P. K. (2010). A review on mesopelagic fishes belonging to family Myctophidae. Rev. Fish Biol. Fish. 21, 339–354. doi: 10.1007/s11160-010-9176-4
• Choy, C. A., Davison, P. C., Drazen, J. C., Flynn, A., Gier, E. J., Hoffman, J. C., et al. (2012). Global trophic position comparison of two dominant mesopelagic fish families (Myctophidae, Stomiidae) using amino acid nitrogen isotopic analyses. PLoS One 7:e50133. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050133
• Battaglia, P., Esposito, V., Malara, D., Falautano, M., Castriota, L., and Andaloro, F. (2014). Diet of the spothead lanternfish Diaphus metopoclampus (Cocco, 1829) (Pisces: Myctophidae) in the central Mediterranean Sea. Ital. J. Zool. 81, 530–543. doi: 10.1080/11250003.2014.948500
• Trueman, C. N., Johnston, G., O’hea, B., and Mackenzie, K. M. (2014). Trophic interactions of fish communities at midwater depths enhance long-term carbon storage and benthic production on continental slopes. Proc. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci. 281:20140669. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0669