Rank-abundance allocations as a tool to analyze planktonic copepod assemblages off the Danshuei river estuary (Northern Taiwan)

Zoological Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-62

  Hwang, Jiang Shiou ^a   Souissi, Sami ^b   Dahms, Hans Uwe ^a   Tseng, Li Chun ^a   Schmitt, Francois G ^b   Chen, Qing Chao ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Laboratoire d Océanologie et de Géosciences   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Bioindicator species; Copepod succession; Monitoring; Rank abundance analysis; Taiwan strait

Indexed keywords

CALANUS SINICUS; COPEPODA; TEMORA TURBINATA;

EID: 72549109691     PISSN: 10215506     EISSN: 1810522X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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