Patterns and occurrence of diel vertical migration of zooplankton biomass in the Mid-Atlantic bight described by an acoustic Doppler current profiler

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 831-858

  Ashjian, Carin J ^a,b   Smith, Sharon L ^a,c   Flagg, Charles N ^a   Wilson, Cara ^a,d  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DIEL MIGRATION; SEASONALITY; VERTICAL MIGRATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032123394     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4343(98)00019-3     Document Type: Article

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