Seasonal cycle of appendicularians at a coastal station (38°28'S, 57°41'W) of the SW Atlantic Ocean

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 171-184

  Capitanio, Fabiana L ^d   Curelovich, Jessica ^d   Tresguerres, Martín ^b   Negri, Rubén M ^c   Viñas, María Delia ^a,c   Esnal, Graciela B ^a,b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL A; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; METAZOAN; SEASONALITY; SECONDARY PRODUCTION; SIZE STRUCTURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARGENTINA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; APPENDICULARIA (CLASS); APPENDICULARIA SICULA; COPEPODA; FRITILLARIA (APPENDICULARIAN); FRITILLARIA BOREALIS; OIKOPLEURA DIOICA; OIKOPLEURA FUSIFORMIS;

EID: 42249091076     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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