Seasonal and spatial changes in the zooplankton community of Kongsfjorden, Svalbard

Polar Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 254-281

  Walkusz, Wojciech ^a   Kwasniewski, Slawek ^a   Falk petersen, Stig ^b   Hop, Haakon ^b   Tverberg, Vigdis ^b   Wieczorek, Piotr ^a   Weslawski, Jan Marcin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Advection; Calanus; Fjords; Kongsfjorden; Svalbard; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADVECTION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; FJORD; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATER MASS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARCTIC; KONGSFJORDEN; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

CALANUS;

EID: 68349119131     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: 17518369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-8369.2009.00107.x     Document Type: Article

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