Habitats and fish communities at mesophotic depths in the Mexican Pacific

Mesophotic ecosystems, found at the limit of light penetration in the ocean, are rich in biodiversity and harbour unique ecological communities. However, they remain among the least studied habitat zones on earth due to the high costs and technological limitations. Here, we characterize mesophotic communities in two marine reserves across a range of habitat types, depths and temperatures using submersible technologies, with the goal of understanding the processes that structure these communities across biogeographical regions.

Citation: Hollarsmith J A, Ramírez-Ortiz G, Winquist T, Velasco-Lozano M, DuBois K, Reyes-Bonilla H, Neumann K C, Grosholz E D, Earl C (2023). Habitats and fish communities at mesophotic depths in the Mexican Pacific. Version 2.0. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/edzdnx

Published: October 21, 2023 at 01:11

License: To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

URL: https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/resource?r=revillagigedo-hollarsmith-2020