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 BiologĂ­a de Organismos y Sistemas, Oviedo, Spain, (3)University of Hawaii, Geology & Geophysics, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Ocean Sciences, Miami, FL, United States, (5)University of South Carolina, School of the Earth, Ocean, and Environment, Columbia, SC, United States, (6)University of Hawaii, Department of Earth Sciences, Honolulu, HI, United States