Evaluating variations in the importance of small particles as a food resource to mesopelagic micronekton from the central gyre to the equator in the North Pacific

Jeffrey Drazen1, Sonia Romero-Romero2, Cassie A. Ka'apu-Lyons3, Kristen Gloeckler1, Hilary G Close4, Claudia R Benitez-Nelson5 and Brian N Popp6, (1)University of Hawaii, Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)University of Oviedo, Dpto. de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas, Oviedo, Spain, (3)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Earth Sciences, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, University of Miami, Department of Ocean Sciences, Miami, United States, (5)University of South Carolina, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment, Columbia, United States, (6)University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of Earth Sciences, Honolulu, United States