Vertical zonation of the zooplankton community in the Central Baltic Sea in relation to hydrographic stratification as revealed by multivariate discriminant function and canonical analysis

Journal of Marine Systems

Volumn 67, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 47-58

  Schulz, Jan ^a   Möllmann, Christian ^b   Hirche, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Canonical analysis; Community analysis; Multivariate discriminant function analysis; Stratification; Vertical zonation; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; MULTIVARIABLE SYSTEMS; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

BALTIC SEA; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION ANALYSIS; VERTICAL ZONATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

BIODIVERSITY;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEEP SEA; HYDROGRAPHY; MARGINAL SEA; STRATIFICATION; WATER MASS; ZONATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; NORTH SEA;

EID: 34447108146     PISSN: 09247963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2006.09.004     Document Type: Article

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