Copepod communities along an Atlantic Meridional Transect: Abundance, size structure, and grazing rates

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1375-1391

  López, Eva ^a   Anadón, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atlantic Meridional Transect; Copepod abundance; Copepod size spectra; Ingestion rates; Nauplii

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING; ALGAE CONTROL; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FISHERIES; FLOW OF FLUIDS; KETONES; MARINE BIOLOGY; PEST CONTROL; PHYTOPLANKTON; PORPHYRINS; RATE CONSTANTS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ATLANTIC; ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL TRANSECT; CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATIONS; COPEPOD ABUNDANCE; COPEPOD BIOMASS; COPEPOD SIZE SPECTRA; EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; FLUORESCENCE TECHNIQUES; INGESTION RATES; NAUPLII; OLIGOTROPHIC GYRES; PETERSON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SIZE FRACTIONS; SIZE STRUCTURE; SUBTROPICAL CONVERGENCE; UPWELLING AREAS;

CHLOROPHYLL;

ABUNDANCE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONVERGENCE; CRUSTACEAN; GRAZING; GYRE; INGESTION RATE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; SIZE STRUCTURE; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

COPEPODA; PROTISTA; VINDULA ARSINOE;

EID: 50349089828     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2008.05.012     Document Type: Article

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