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• There are marked changes in the abundance, activity and composition of almost all components of the pelagic system of the Banda Sea, related to the monsoon-induced alternation between periods of upwelling and downwelling (see Zijlstra and Baars, 1990). Indonesian Sea large marine ecosystem
• We also saw our first pelagic bird, the natty Northern Gannet.
• Each day, in visibility of over 30 metres, we encounter black and white-tipped reef and grey sharks, large pelagics like dogtoothed tuna and many of the four hundred other species of fish which inhabit these waters.
• Consequently, Chalk should not be perceived as merely a thick pelagic ooze deposited in a tectonically quiescent period.
• It is also suggested that the reef may be a source of pelagic larvae of sessile organisms that may settle on mangrove roots for greater diversity.
• Usually you can expect to see great numbers of pelagic birds - gannets, shearwaters, jaegers, storm-petrels, alcids - that live mainly at sea.
• In these hemipelagic units, the cyclic alternation of limestones and marls constitutes the elementary stratigraphic building blocks.
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• There are many cleaning stations here and you will often encounter a large potato cod or pelagics such as jacks and barracuda visiting, in addition to the resident reef fish.
• Long-tem change in benthopelagic fish abundance in the abyssal northeast Pacific Ocean. Bottom-up control