Macrozooplankton communities and environmental variables in the Barents Sea marginal ice zone in late winter and spring

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 263, Issue , 2003, Pages 43-64

  Søreide, Janne E ^a,b,c   Hop, Haakon ^a   Falk Petersen, Stig ^a   Gulliksen, Bjørn ^b   Hansen, Edmond ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Barents Sea; Macrozooplankton; Marginal ice zone; Multivariate community analyses; Ordination

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; SALINITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER TEMPERATURE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

AGLANTHA; AGLANTHA DIGITALE; ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; BEROE; BEROE CUCUMIS; CALANUS; CALANUS GLACIALIS; CALANUS HYPERBOREUS; CHAETOGNATHA; CLIONE LIMACINA; CLIONIDAE; COELENTERATA; COPEPODA; CTENOPHORA; CUCUMIS; EUPHAUSIACEA; GASTROPODA; HYDROZOA; LIMACINA; MERTENSIA OVUM; PARATHEMISTO; PARATHEMISTO LIBELLULLA; SAGITTA; SAGITTA ELEGANS; THYSANOESSA; THYSANOESSA INERMIS; THYSANOESSA LONGICAUDATA; THYSANOESSA RASCHII;

EID: 0347028296     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps263043     Document Type: Article

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