Population structure and fecundity of the microcopepod Oncaea bispinosa in the Red Sea - A challenge to general concepts for the scaling of fecundity

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 302, Issue , 2005, Pages 159-175

  Böttger Schnack, Ruth ^a   Schnack, Dietrich ^b  

^a Leibniz Institut für Meereswissenschaften ^*  (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fecundity; Mesopelagic zone; Oncaeidae; Red Sea; Vertical distribution

Indexed keywords

FECUNDITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

COPEPODA; ONCAEA; ONCAEIDAE;

EID: 28444449126     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps302159     Document Type: Article

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