Egg production and hatching success in the calanoid copepods Calanus helgolandicus and Calanus finmarchicus in the North Sea from March to September 2001

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1239-1259

  Jónasdóttir, Sigrún H ^a   Nguyen, Huu Trung ^b,c   Hansen, Frank ^d   Gärtner, Sanne ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c Research Institute of Marine Fisheries   (Viet Nam)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG PRODUCTION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

CALANOIDA; CALANUS; CALANUS FINMARCHICUS; CALANUS HELGOLANDICUS; CILIOPHORA; COPEPODA; PROTISTA;

EID: 33644818295     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: 14643774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbi091     Document Type: Article

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