Intrusions of the Kuroshio Current in the northern South China Sea affect copepod assemblages of the Luzon Strait

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 352, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 12-27

  Hwang, Jiang Shiou ^a   Dahms, Hans Uwe ^a   Tseng, Li Chun ^a   Chen, Qing Chao ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Copepoda; Current regimes; Kuroshio Branch Current; Marine plankton

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CRUSTACEAN; CURRENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER MASS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KUROSHIO CURRENT; LUZON STRAIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; TAIWAN;

CALANOIDA; CALANUS SINICUS; COPEPODA; CYCLOPOIDA; HARPACTICOIDA; POECILOSTOMATOIDA;

EID: 35148844296     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2007.06.034     Document Type: Article

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