Hypoxia tolerance in the copepod Calanoides carinatus and the effect of an intermediate oxygen minimum layer on copepod vertical distribution in the northern Benguela Current upwelling system and the Angola-Benguela Front

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 352, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 234-243

  Auel, Holger ^a   Verheye, Hans M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b MARINE AND COASTAL MANAGEMENT   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Benguela Current; Calanoides; Coastal upwelling; Community structure; Copepod; Hypoxia; Mesopelagic; Oxygen minimum layer; Respiration; Southeast Atlantic; Vertical partitioning; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; DOMINANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYPOXIA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; RECOLONIZATION; RESPIRATION; SURVIVAL; UPWELLING; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BENGUELA CURRENT;

CALANOIDA; CALANOIDES; CALANOIDES CARINATUS; COPEPODA;

EID: 35248812953     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2007.07.020     Document Type: Article

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