A New Hypothesis for Deep Chlorophyll Maximum Formation: Light-Dependent Grazing

Holly Moeller, University of California Santa Barbara, Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Charlotte Laufkotter, Princeton University, NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States; University of Bern, Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, Bern, Switzerland, Edward Michael Sweeney, United States Geological Survey, Coastal Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole, MA, United States; Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Yeala Shaked, Hebrew University, Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences,, Eilat, Israel and Matthew D Johnson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology Department, Woods Hole, MA, United States