Large-scale patterns in diversity and community structure of surface water copepods from the Atlantic Ocean

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 236, Issue , 2002, Pages 189-203

  Woodd Walker, Rachel S ^a   Ward, Peter ^a   Clarke, Andrew ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Community structure; Copepoda; Diversity; Latitudinal gradient

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

COPEPODA;

EID: 0037014408     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps236189     Document Type: Article

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