Copepod community structure over a marine outfall area in the north-eastern South China Sea

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 955-966

  Tseng, Li Chun ^a   Kumar, Ram ^a   Dahms, Hans Uwe ^a   Chen, Chun Te ^b   Souissi, Sami ^c   Chen, Qing Chao ^d   Hwang, Jiang Shiou ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TUNG FANG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Sewage abatement; Taiwan Strait; Underwater outfall system; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; DOMINANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; TAIWAN STRAIT;

ACROCALANUS GIBBER; ACROCALANUS GRACILIS; COPEPODA; TEMORA TURBINATA;

EID: 48249088446     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315408001574     Document Type: Article

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