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Streamlined Sampling and Cultivation of the Pelagic Cosmopolitan Larvacean, Oikopleura dioica
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Deep-pelagic ecosystems should be considered as social-ecological systems
Leandro Nolé Eduardo1, Arnaud Bertrand2
1MARBEC, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Sète, France. leandro.nole-eduardo@ird.fr.
Nature Ecology & Evolution
|April 18, 2025
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