Reproductive activity of two dominant Antarctic copepod species, Metridia gerlachei and Ctenocalanus citer, in late autumn in the eastern Bellingshausen Sea

Polar Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 583-590

  Niehoff, Barbara ^a   Schnack Schiel, Sigrid ^a   Cornils, Astrid ^a   Brichta, Mauricio ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTUMN; BODY CONDITION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; REPRODUCTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

(EAST); BELLINGSHAUSEN SEA;

ALGAE; COPEPODA; CTENOCALANUS; CTENOCALANUS CITER; INVERTEBRATA; METRIDIA; METRIDIA GERLACHEI; TRAGELAPHUS EURYCERUS;

EID: 0036940859     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-002-0378-7     Document Type: Article

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