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The 20 pages that link to Deep scattering layer, each with the reason it gives.

• Diel vertical migrationBroader topic: Daily-moving animals can produce layers that appear to rise and fall in sonar surveys.

• Mesopelagic zoneRelated: Echo sounders detect dense mesopelagic animals as migrating scattering layers.

• Whale sharkRelated: Its prey can occur in this layer, raising questions about how sharks exploit deep food sources.

• CounterilluminationRelated: Its inhabitants face changing visual conditions as the layer shifts in depth.

• Bathypelagic zoneRelated: Its migrating animals can pass through bathypelagic depths and complicate surveys.

• LanternfishRelated: Migrating lanternfish contribute to the layer’s changing sonar signal.

• Mesopelagic fishRelated: Dense schools of mesopelagic fish help create this prominent sonar feature.

• ViperfishRelated: Its migrating animals include potential prey for deep-sea predators.

• Luzon StraitRelated: Deep passages in the strait provide habitat and migration pathways for mesopelagic life.

• Aphotic zoneRelated: Its animals move between aphotic depths and brighter waters as they forage.

• BarreleyeRelated: Migrating prey in this layer helps explain why upward-looking deep-sea predators are useful.

• GonostomatidaeRelated: Bristlemouths and other migrating animals help create these widespread layers.

• Ocean sunfishRelated: Sunfish dive to forage on organisms associated with this migrating layer.

• MyctophiformesRelated: Lanternfishes are major contributors to sound-reflecting layers that shift depth daily.

• AnomalopidaeRelated: Flashlight fishes forage around layers where plankton and small animals concentrate.

• Deep-sea communityRelated: Its moving animals connect deep-water feeding with surface productivity.

• Longfin mako sharkRelated: Its prey may occupy depths that complicate observation of the shark's feeding ecology.

• Marine hatchetfishRelated: Hatchetfishes are among the organisms that can contribute to these moving layers.

• SpirulaRelated: Spirula’s vertical movements are discussed in relation to this migrating deep-water community.

• Umbrella octopusRelated: Its migrating animals are among the potential prey encountered by deep-sea octopuses.