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The 38 pages that link to Diel vertical migration, each with the reason it gives.

• Fish migrationRelated: Many fish change depth each day to feed while reducing exposure to predators.

• PlanktonRelated: Many zooplankton rise at night to feed and descend by day to reduce predation.

• ZooplanktonRelated: Many zooplankton migrate vertically, shaping feeding encounters and transporting carbon into deep water.

• Pelagic zoneRelated: This widespread behavior links feeding and predator avoidance across pelagic depths.

• Antarctic krillRelated: Krill often move upward at night to feed and descend by day, though patterns vary with conditions.

• Mesopelagic zoneRelated: Many mesopelagic animals rise at night to feed and descend by day.

• KrillRelated: Many krill rise toward surface waters at night and descend during daylight.

• Deep scattering layerRelated: Its synchronized nightly ascent and daytime descent shifts the scattering layer through the water column.

• Larval dispersalRelated: Larvae can alter their depth to encounter currents that carry them in different directions.

• Pelagic fishRelated: Pelagic fish and their prey may shift depth with the light cycle.

• Whale sharkRelated: Whale sharks can follow migrating prey as it moves through the water column.

• CounterilluminationRelated: Migrating animals encounter changing light levels that alter the demands of counterillumination.

• Deep-sea ecologyRelated: Migrating animals transport carbon and nutrients between depths.

• Forage fishRelated: Forage fish often track migrating plankton through the water column.

• LanternfishRelated: Many lanternfish rise toward the surface at night to feed and descend by day.

• CopepodRelated: Many copepods rise at night to feed while reducing exposure to visual predators during daylight.

• Surface feedingRelated: It can bring prey within reach of surface feeders at particular times.

• Mesopelagic fishRelated: Many mesopelagic fish make this migration to feed near the surface under darkness.

• DaphniaRelated: Some Daphnia descend by day and rise at night, reducing exposure to visual predators.

• ViperfishRelated: Some viperfish follow prey through this recurring movement between ocean depths.

• WalleyeRelated: Walleye often shift depth as light and prey availability change through the day.

• OarfishRelated: It offers a possible framework for understanding changing depth records of deep-water prey and predators.

• Megamouth sharkRelated: Megamouth sharks can follow migrating prey between deep water and the surface.

• Aphotic zoneRelated: Many organisms leave aphotic depths at night to feed nearer the surface.

• GonostomatidaeRelated: Many bristlemouths rise toward surface waters after dark to feed.

• LutjanidaeRelated: Some snappers move between reefs and deeper waters as conditions and feeding opportunities change.

• CladoceraRelated: Some cladocerans move deeper by day and nearer the surface at night to reduce predation risk.

• Cookiecutter sharkRelated: The shark’s nighttime ascent is associated with daily vertical movements in the ocean.

• Cow sharkRelated: Bluntnose sixgill sharks have been recorded making these daily depth shifts.

• MyctophiformesRelated: Many lanternfishes rise toward the surface after dark to feed.

• StomiiformesRelated: Many midwater stomiiforms track this migration while feeding in the ocean's twilight zone.

• Anthias anthiasRelated: Changes in plankton depth can alter the fish's feeding opportunities through the day.

• Coastal fishRelated: Some shelf-associated fish change depth to feed and avoid predators.

• CoregonusRelated: Coregonids may follow migrating zooplankton through the water column.

• CumaceaRelated: Some cumaceans leave the seabed and enter the water column, often at night.

• HoundsharkRelated: Some deep-water houndsharks shift depth as light and prey availability change.

• LancetfishRelated: Lancetfish can track prey whose depth changes with the day-night cycle.

• Marine hatchetfishRelated: Their movements contribute to the transport of carbon between ocean layers.