Supplemental Information for:
Global patterns of diel vertical migration times and velocities from acoustic data
Daniele Bianchi1,2*, K. A. S. Mislan2
1
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University California, Los Angeles, Los
Angeles, CA, USA
2
School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Supplementary Table 1
Supplementary References
Supplementary Table 1. Vertical migration velocities from the literature. Expanded and
modified after Davison et al. 2013, Supplementary Table A1.
Velocity Range
(cm s-1)
Method
Region
Reference
2.8
Not reported
NE Atlantic
Angel 1985
2.8 to 12.5
153 kHz ADCP
Arabian Sea
Ashjian et al. 2002
3.3 to 5.6
12 kHz sonar
Baja California
Barham 1966
0.8 to 2.8
200 kHz sonar
Hawaii
Benoit-Bird and Au 2004
0.5 to 2.2
307 kHz ADCP
Svalbard Archipelago
Arctic Ocean
Berge et al. 2014
9.8 to 13.9
10 kHz sonar
Canary Is.
Boden and Kampa 1967
3.3 to 6.0
38 kHz echo sounder
Gulf of California
Eastern Tropical Pacific
Cade and Benoit-Bird
2015
0.3 to 5.6
-
-
Catul et al. 2011
0.6 to 3.4
76.8 kHz ADCP
Antarctica
Cisewski et al. 2010
7.3 to 7.7
12 kHz sonar
NW Atlantic
Clarke and Backus 1953
0.5 to 3.0
153 kHz ADCP
4.0 to 5.2
38.5 kHz sonar
NE Pacific
Donaldson and Pearcy
1972
1.8 to 5.0
38, 50, 120 kHz sonar
Arabian Sea
Gjosaeter 1984
6.5 to 12.5
-
-
Harrisson 1967
4.3 to 5.75
Broadband sonar
NW Atlantic
Hersey et al. 1962
2.0 to 6.0
153 kHz ADCP
NE Atlantic
Heywood 1996
5.0
154 kHz ADCP
Subtropical N Atlantic
Jiang et al. 2007
7.6
12 kHz sonar
Puerto Rico
Johnson et al. 1956
Fischer and Visbeck 1993
Velocity Range
(cm s-1)
Method
Region
Reference
8.4
Broadband sonar
San Diego
Kampa and Boden 1954
4.8 to
8.5
38 kHz
sonar
Red Sea
Klevjer
et al.
2012
2.6 to 4.6
153 kHz ADCP, 12 kHz
sonar
Arabian Sea
Luo et al. 2000
0.4 to 1.1
120 kHz Sonar
3.0 to 4.0
154 kHz ADCP
W Mediterranean
Pinot and Jansa 2001
1.1 to 4.2
67 kHz ADCP
NE Pacific
Plueddemann and Pinkel
1989
0.6 to 2.5
307.2 kHz ADCP
Newfoundland shelf
Record and de Young
2006
2.5
-
-
Salvanes and Kristoffersen
2001
1.5 to 3.0
200 kHz echosounder
Saanich Inlet
NW Pacific
Sato et al. 2013
2.2 to 11.1
153 kHz ADCP
NW Mediterranean
Tarling et al. 2002
1.5 to 2.5
30 kHz sonar
NE Pacific
Taylor 1968
5.0
76.8 kHz ADCP
Arabian Sea
Wang et al. 2013
1.4 to 5.6
MOCNESS nets
Subtropical N Atlantic
Wiebe, Copley et al. 1992
Onsrud and Kaartvedt
1998
4.4 ± 2.7
mean ± std
7.1 ± 3.6
this study
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