Short term changes in zooplankton community during the summer-autumn transition in the open NW Mediterranean Sea: Species composition, abundance and diversity

Biogeosciences

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1765-1782

  Raybaud, V ^a,b   Nival, P ^a,b   Mousseau, L ^a,b   Gubanova, A ^c   Altukhov, D ^c   Khvorov, S ^c   Ibanez F ^a,b   Andersen, V ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^c A O KOVALEVSKY INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS OF RAS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AUTUMN; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DIVERSITY INDEX; NEKTON; OPEN OCEAN; SALINE INTRUSION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUMMER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (NORTHWEST);

CALANOIDA; CALOCALANUS; COPEPODA; EUCHAETA; HETERORHABDUS; MESOCALANUS; NANNOCALANUS; NEOCALANUS; OSTRACODA; PLEUROMAMMA; VINDULA ARSINOE;

EID: 58049188336     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-5-1765-2008     Document Type: Article

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