Mortality rates of epipelagic copepods in the post-spring bloom period in Disko Bay, western Greenland

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 359, Issue , 2008, Pages 151-160

  Thor, Peter ^a   Nielsen, Torkel Gissel ^b   Tiselius, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arctic copepods; Calanus; Mortality rates; Oithona; Pseudocalanus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRUSTACEAN; DOMINANCE; LIFE TABLE; MORTALITY; PREDATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARCTIC; DISKO BAY; GREENLAND;

CALANUS; CALANUS FINMARCHICUS; CALANUS GLACIALIS; CALANUS HYPERBOREUS; COPEPODA; OITHONA; OITHONA SIMILIS; PSEUDOCALANUS;

EID: 44849118161     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07376     Document Type: Article

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