Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Undersea mountains are key hubs for sharks <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-02-undersea-mountains-key-hubs-sharks.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-02-undersea</span><span class="invisible">-mountains-key-hubs-sharks.html</span></a> paper: <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003016" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">journals.plos.org/plosbiology/</span><span class="invisible">article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003016</span></a></p><p>"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Zooplankton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zooplankton</span></a> were twice as common at shallow <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/seamounts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seamounts</span></a> than in the open ocean, while <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/shark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shark</span></a> biomass was 41 times higher... <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/FilterFeeders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FilterFeeders</span></a> may benefit from prey being blown over the peak, and the peak may also stop prey species from retreating into deeper water... Also, some predators appear to use seamounts as hubs to gather, socialize, mate or rest"</p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Sharks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sharks</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Animals</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecology</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Plankton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plankton</span></a></p>