Diel patterns of planktonic bioluminescence in the northern Sargasso Sea
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Day-night changes in the vertical distribution, intensity, and size of bioluminescence flashes were investigated during a series of cruises to the northern Sargasso Sea in 1987 and 1988. Overall, depth integrated bioluminescence potential and flash density estimated from in situ measurements with a pumping bathyphotometer were 2 to 5 x higher at midnight than at midday. Depths from 50 to 100 m exhibited the most substantial day to night increases in bioluminescence potential and flash density. When classified by flash size (photon output per flash event), the increase from day to night was significant for all flash sizes, but was most dramatic for small flashes producing <7 x 108 photons flash-1. Bioluminescence potential and flash density increased 2 to 3 x during bathyphotometer measurements made at dusk. Bioluminescent light budgets estimated from day and night net collections in May and August 1987 also predicted 2.5 x higher nighttime than daytime mesoplankton bioluminescence. However, large bioluminescent taxa (mesoplankton) capable of significant vertical migrations only contributed on the order of 15% of the total bioluminescence in surface waters. Our results do not support the idea that most of the nightly increase in bioluminescence potential and flash density are due to vertical migration of bioluminescent organisms; rather they are consistent with an alternate view that photoinhibition of bioluminescent flashing by dinoflagellates may be primarily responsible for the diel patterns.
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