Estimates of Zooplankton abundance and size distribution with the Optical Plankton Counter (OPC)

Archive of Fishery and Marine Research

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 271-280

  Wieland, Kai ^a,b   Petersen, Dietrun ^a   Schnack, Dietrich ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 0031421437     PISSN: 09441921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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