Deep sleep is responsible for helping process the information you encounter each day. Not getting quality sleep is also linked to conditions, like:. The deep sleep stage itself is associated with certain disorders, like:. Of this, around 13 to 23 percent of your total sleep is deep sleep. That said, deep sleep decreases with age.
This technology is still relatively new. Your doctor may recommend a sleep study called a polysomnography PSG. Heat may promote more slow wave sleep. For example, taking a hot bath or spending time in a sauna before bed may help improve your sleep quality. Eating a low-carbohydrate diet or taking certain antidepressants may also promote deep sleep, though more research is needed in this area.
Experts say you can prepare for the end of daylight saving time for days in advance. Among the recommendations is outdoor physical activity. Tripod fish are an oddity that can be found in this zone. Often found resting on the seafloor, tripod fish can pump fluid into their elongated fins to make them like rigid stilts or as their name implies, a tripod , sometimes a few feet high. Rattail fish, octopuses , and sea cucumbers are also well adapted to the intense pressure here. The hadalpelagic is the very deepest part of the ocean that includes the ocean trenches.
It extends from 19, feet 6, meters to the very bottom of the Mariana Trench at 36, feet 10, meters. Very little is known about the creatures that live at such depths.
In , scientists officially described a snailfish Pseudoliparis swirei at 27, feet below sea level, the deepest living fish ever found. The snailfish lacks scales, has large teeth, and does not bioluminesce, a departure from what many people envision in a deep-sea fish.
It is the only named fish at such depth. A second has been observed on video, however, it has yet to be captured and formally described. Despite the remoteness of the hadalpelagic, humanity still finds a way to interfere—plastic debris has been found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Like the open ocean, the seafloor is similarly divided into distinct zones.
Right next to the coast is the continental shelf, the submerged part of the continent. This area is characterized by shallow water and mostly exists within the sunlit epipelagic zone. Traveling away from the coast the seafloor will begin to slope down through the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones into deeper depths. As the slope levels out at the continental rise roughly 19, feet or 6, m it gives way to the abyssal plain, the long stretch that accounts for roughly 70 percent of the world sea floor.
But the ocean floor consists of more than just the flat and seemingly vacant abyssal plain. Pockets of life thrive when food is available, and often these distinct deep sea communities rely on alternate sources of chemical energy that do not originate from the sun—they have figured a way to make do with what they get. A remarkable white sponge with brown sea feathers, pink brittle stars, and a pink sea feather in the lower right.
The abyssal plain is the relatively level deep seafloor. It is a cold and dark place that lies between 3, and 6, meters below the sea surface. It is also home to squat lobsters, red prawns, and various species of sea cucumbers.
For these creatures food is scarce most of the time. Bits of decaying matter and excretions from thousands of meters above must trickle down to the seafloor, with only a small fraction escaping the hungry jaws of creatures above.
Less than five percent of food produced at the surface will make its way to the abyssal plain. Most of this comes in great pulses as the result of phytoplankton blooms.
When the phytoplankton are gone, the animals that grew quickly to eat them die and sink to the seafloor. For the majority of the ocean floor large animals are scarce. The little nutrition that rains down from above in the form of marine snow is not nearly consistent enough nor substantive enough to fuel a large living creature though there are billions of tiny ones. Whale or other large animal deaths are different.
Whale falls occur when a whale dies in surface waters and sinks to the bottom of the ocean. Trees, sharks, and large fish can also fall to the seafloor and provide food. The sudden arrival of food prompts creatures from afar to congregate and feast on the fleshy carcass.
Once the flesh has been stripped and consumed by predators, bone eaters arrive so that not even the skeleton will remain. In the months and years after a whale fall the site will become the home and food source for millions of creatures. For the first month or so that a whale carcass is on the seafloor it is a buffet for scavengers from afar. Many are attracted by the smell of rotting flesh. Within hours of falling, sleeper sharks, rattail fish, and black hagfish flock to the carcass like moths to a flame.
Snow crabs, brittle stars, and squat lobsters scurry their way over, and in the ensuing month these scavengers will consume about 40 to 60 kg of flesh per day 88 — pounds. The feeding frenzy also disperses bits and pieces as well as nutrients into the surrounding seafloor where anemones, sea stars, mollusks, worms, and other crustaceans take advantage of the food.
Some whale falls can support a blanket of 45, worms per square meter—the highest animal density in the entire ocean. Soon the skeleton is picked clean, but the fall is far from nutrient depleted. Whale bone consists of roughly 60 percent fat by weight, up to times the amount of nutrients typically found at the seafloor. Specially adapted worms and snails take advantage of this feast by boring into the inner bone with acid and absorbing the fats inside with the help of bacteria.
The worms, called Osedax worms , ride ocean currents as larvae and then settle on the exposed bone. The first of these larvae develop into females, with one end tunneling into the bone and forming what looks like roots growing through the bone. The other end grows into a feathered fan that lets them extract oxygen from the water.
Larvae that arrive later or land on another worm, become males, but never really grow beyond the larval form. Scientists have found about 25 species of bone eating worms since they were first discovered in , and many more are thought to exist. Some are specialized burrowers that dig within the bone for the fat, while others pick apart the surface layers.
Other bacteria types grow directly on the bones and feed on the sulfur. Up to different types of these bacteria have been found on a single whale carcass, and up to 20 percent of those are also found living around hydrothermal vents. No two whale fall communities are the same. The size of the whale, the depth of the seafloor, and the location all contribute to the types of animals that colonize the area and determine how long it takes for the skeleton to disappear.
Our knowledge of whale falls comes from few and far between ROV and AUV encounters, so though whale falls are scarce, scientists estimate they exist at every 5 to 16 km in the Pacific Ocean.
These are hydrothermal vents. Hydrothermal vents exist in volcanically active areas. As the water heats it absorbs metals like iron, zinc, copper, lead, and cobalt from the surrounding rocks. Hot water rises, carrying these minerals to the surface of the sea floor. Here's everything you need to know about shopping for the…. Sleep trackers are equipped with tools and features, such as sleep duration and quality, heart rate, blood oxygen level, that can help you make….
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