Seasonal changes in the gelatinous zooplankton community and hydromedusa abundances in Korsfjord and Fanafjord, western Norway

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 351, Issue , 2007, Pages 113-127

  Hosia, Aino ^a   Båmstedt, Ulf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aglantha digitale; Fjords; Gelatinous zooplankton; Hydromedusae; Norway; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; GROWTH; MEROPLANKTON; OVERWINTERING; POPULATION DENSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FANAFJORDEN; HORDALAND; KORSFJORDEN [HORDALAND]; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

AGLANTHA DIGITALE; CTENOPHORA (COELENTERATES); DIMOPHYES ARCTICA; HYDROMEDUSA; HYDROZOA; LENSIA CONOIDEA; SCYPHOMEDUSAE; SIPHONOPHORA (HYDROZOANS);

EID: 38349028865     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07148     Document Type: Article

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