What you see is not what you catch: A comparison of concurrently collected net, Optical Plankton Counter, and Shadowed Image Particle Profiling Evaluation Recorder data from the northeast Gulf of Mexico

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 129-151

  Remsen, Andrew ^a   Hopkins, Thomas L ^a   Samson, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

27 N 86 W; Abundance; Biomass; Florida; Gulf of Mexico; Imaging; OPC; Optics; Plankton collecting devices; Samplers; USA; Vertical distribution; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SAMPLING;

ZOOPLANKTON;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL METHOD; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

APPENDICULARIA (CLASS); CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; DOLIOLIDA; PROTOCTISTA; TRICHODESMIUM;

EID: 0345791406     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2003.09.008     Document Type: Article

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