Microzooplankton in the open waters of the northern Adriatic Sea from 1990 to 1993: The importance of copepod nauplii densities

Helgoland Marine Research

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-81

  Lučić, Davor ^a   Njire, Jakica ^a   Morović, Mira ^a   Precali, Robert ^b   Fuks, Dragica ^b   Bolotin, Jakša ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Croatia)

^b RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Adriatic Sea; Microzooplankton; Nauplii size fraction; Po River discharge

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; HYDROGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVER DISCHARGE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

COPEPODA;

EID: 0037366423     PISSN: 1438387X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10152-003-0135-5     Document Type: Article

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