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The vertical distributions of plankton are even less known than the horizontal ones. The use of accurately functioning opening-closing nets has been introduced only recently at any scale and the data available are far too scarce to discriminate between different vertical patterns or migration types. In most species some kind of vertical movement of populations is found. This movement may be diurnal, ontogenetic or it may be caused by feeding-migration or by an up- and downwards following of the isotherms. Consequently, the vertical patterns are seldom stable in space and time, and it seems impractical to distinguish special types of vertical distribution.
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van der Spoel, S., Heyman, R.P. (1983). Vertical distribution. In: A Comparative Atlas of Zooplankton. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02366-2_4
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