Summary of gelatinous zooplankton diel vertical distribution on South Brazilian Bight.

Species richness and abundance (ind. or col. 10 m-3) of total and main gelatinous taxa/developmental stage is shown as average ± standard error (n = 12 on each case). An analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed to test the effect of depth stratum (UML = upper mixed layer, 0–40 m; DCM = deep chlorophyll maximum layer, 40–70 m; BL = bottom layer, 70–100 m) on each variable considering diurnal and nocturnal data-sets separately. In case of significant differences (in bold; p<0.05) a t test was used to compare each pair of strata after applying the Bonferroni correction, the results indicated by the superscript letter; strata sharing at least one letter do not differ significantly between each other.