Zooplankton biogeographic boundaries in the California Current System as determined from metabarcoding
Fig 1
Environmental variability and sampling locations along cruise track.
(A) Temperature versus salinity at each station at depths 0-100m showing 10m increments. Values at 20m are highlighted. (B) Location of each sampling station alongside 1000m bathymetric contour and an overview of the dominant water masses in the region. The California Current is shown as it runs offshore of the western coast of North America before diverging at Punta Eugenia and eventually feeding into the North Equatorial Current as part of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre circulation.