Distribution of net-collected planktonic cnidarians along the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge and their associations with the main water masses

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 106-118

  Hosia, A ^a   Stemmann, L ^b,c   Youngbluth, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Cnidaria; Gelatinous zooplankton; Mid Atlantic Ridge; North Atlantic; Plankton surveys

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; SURFACE WATERS; WATER CONSERVATION;

MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE (MAR); PLANKTONS; ZOOPLANKTON;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ABUNDANCE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; INVERTEBRATE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW RECORD; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURFACE WATER; WATER DEPTH; WATER MASS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); AZORES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; MACARONESIA; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; NORTHERN EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CLAUSOPHYES; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; CTENOPHORA (COELENTERATES); HYDROZOA; LEUCKARTIARA; SCYPHOMEDUSAE; SIPHONOPHORA (HYDROZOANS);

EID: 38349070585     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.09.007     Document Type: Article

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