Temporal variability in the night-time distribution of epipelagic siphonophores in the North Atlantic Ocean at Bermuda

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 923-939

  Lo, Wen Tseng ^a,b   Biggs, Douglas C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; EPIPELAGIC ZONE; NIGHT-TIME DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION NUMBER; SIPHONOPHORE; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC, (NORTHWEST); BERMUDA;

ABYLIDAE; ABYLOPSIS ESCHSCHOLTZI; BASSIA BASSENSIS; CALYCOPHORAE; CHELOPHYES APPENDICULATA; DIPHYIDAE; EUDOXOIDES MITRA; EUDOXOIDES SPIRALIS; LENSIA SUBTILIS; MITRA; SIPHONOPHORA (HYDROZOANS);

EID: 0029811886     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/18.6.923     Document Type: Article

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