The diversity and interactions among mesopelagic organisms are difficult to study and, as a result, are insufficiently unaccounted for in food web and biogeochemical models. This knowledge gap hinders our ability to model and forecast ecosystem function and formulate effective policies for conservation and management in the face of growing interest in exploiting midwater living resources. We used multi‐marker metabarcoding of...

Salinity maximum intrusions, subsurface layers of anomalously salty and warm continental slope water moving onto the continental shelf along the thermocline, are recurring features over the Northeast US Shelf and represent an important cross‐shelf exchange mechanism. While their physical characteristics have been described, the biological composition and ecological role of these intrusions remain poorly understood. Here, we co...