Fig. 6: Tissue density of Calanus hyperboreus from different sampling depths of the CAO (MOSAiC, Aug.–Sep. 2020). | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 6: Tissue density of Calanus hyperboreus from different sampling depths of the CAO (MOSAiC, Aug.–Sep. 2020).

From: Seasonal vertical migration of large polar copepods reinterpreted as a dispersal mechanism throughout the water column

Fig. 6: Tissue density of Calanus hyperboreus from different sampling depths of the CAO (MOSAiC, Aug.–Sep. 2020).The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

a Vertical profiles of temperature across the upper 2000 m water column from six stations in the CAO (≥85°N, average) and one station at the western Nansen Basin (wNB) with a stronger influence of warmer Atlantic water (locations in Fig. 2a). b Box plot of tissue densities from eleven samples of C. hyperboreus and C. glacialis over a temperature range from −2 °C to 3 °C. c Tissue density of individual Calanus samples that contributed to the box plot in (b). Samples are colour-coded by the average in situ temperature of their depth strata. d Relationship between maximum tissue density and cholesterol content of the samples. The box plots show the median (central line), the upper and lower quartiles (box), the minimum and maximum 25% of scores (lower and upper whisker) and outliers (asterisk). The error bars represent the standard error.

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