This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.42076146,41876156);Data acquisition and sample collection conducted onboard R/V KEXUESANHAO were from the sharing cruise organized by Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology(Qingdao)and Center for Ocean Mega-science,Chinese Academy of Sciences.We are grateful to Zeqi Zheng,Shunan Fu,Zhihao Zhang,and Xiaoqian Pan for their help in collecting samples.
Functional traits determine the fitness of organisms and mirror their ecological functions.Although trait-based approaches provide ecological insights,it is underexploited for marine zooplankton,particularly with resp...