Seasonal changes in the reproduction of three oncaeid copepods in the surface layer of the Kuroshio Extension

Fisheries Oceanography, Supplement

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-33

  Nakata, Kaoru ^a   Itoh, Hiroshi ^b   Ichikawa, Tadafumi ^a   Sasaki, Katsuyuki ^a  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b Suidosya Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environmental factors; Kuroshio Extension; Oncaeid copepods; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; EGG PRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; KUROSHIO EXTENSION; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC COAST [JAPAN]; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

COPEPODA; INVERTEBRATA; ONCAEA; ONCAEA MEDIA; ONCAEA VENUSTA;

EID: 12544251897     PISSN: 13619470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2004.00316.x     Document Type: Article

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