Environmental factors affecting zooplankton in Cape Cod Bay: Implications for right whale dynamics

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 323, Issue , 2006, Pages 281-298

  Costa, Amy DeLorenzo ^a   Durbin, Edward G ^b   Mayo, Charles A ^a   Lyman, Edward G ^c  

^a CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection; Cape Cod Bay; Copepod production; Eubalaena glacialis; Hydrography; Interannual changes; Wind patterns; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDING GROUND; HABITAT QUALITY; HYDROGRAPHY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; WHALE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CAPE COD BAY; MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BALAENIDAE; CETACEA; COPEPODA; EUBALAENA GLACIALIS;

EID: 33750624959     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps323281     Document Type: Article

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