Zooplankton distribution and diversity in a frontal area of the Aegean Sea

Marine Biology Research

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 149-168

  Zervoudaki, S ^a   Nielsen, T G ^b   Christou, E D ^a   Siokou Frangou, I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Communities; Eastern Mediterranean Sea; Front; Small sized copepods; Zooplankton distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; HETEROGENEITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE LAYER; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

AEGEAN SEA; BLACK SEA; EURASIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

COPEPODA; MICROSETELLA; OITHONA; ONCAEA;

EID: 33746265045     PISSN: 17451000     EISSN: 17451019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17451000600702037     Document Type: Article

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