Zooplankton biomass estimated from digitalized images in Antarctic waters: A calibration exercise

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Hernández León, Santiago ^a   Montero, Irene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEAWATER;

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; BIOMASS; DIGITAL IMAGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 33745829343     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JC002887     Document Type: Article

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