Interannual changes in the biomass of the Black Sea Gelatinous zooplankton

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1377-1385

  Kovalev, Alexander V ^a   Piontkovski, Sergey A ^a,b  

^a A O KOVALEVSKY INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS OF RAS   (Russian Federation)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BLACK SEA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT;

BIOMASS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

BLACK SEA;

ANIMALIA; AURELIA AURITA; MNEMIOPSIS LEIDYI;

EID: 0031926321     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/20.7.1377     Document Type: Article

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