Zooplankton dynamics in a mesoscale eddy-jet system off California

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 201, Issue , 2000, Pages 165-178

  Huntley, M E ^a,d   Gonzalez A ^a   Zhu, Y ^a,e   Zhou, M ^b,e   Irigoien, X ^c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^f NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Eddy; Jet; Mesoscale; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CALANUS PACIFICUS; FLUORESCENCE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METRIDIA PACIFICA; UNITED STATES; WATER DEPTH; WATER SAMPLING; ZOOPLANKTON;

MESOSCALE EDDY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; ZOOPLANKTON;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CALANUS PACIFICUS; COPEPODA; EUPHAUSIA PACIFICA; EUPHAUSIACEA; EUPHAUSIIDAE; METRIDIA PACIFICA;

EID: 0342572495     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps201165     Document Type: Article

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