Zooplankton of the St. Lucia Estuary during the current drought cycle: A comparison between open- and closed-mouth conditions

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 399, Issue , 2010, Pages 157-171

  Carrasco, Nicola K ^a   Perissinotto, Renzo ^a   Pillay, Deena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Drought; Extreme events; Oikopleura dioica; St. Lucia Estuary; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLIMATE EFFECT; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; EXTREME EVENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

KWAZULU-NATAL; SAINT LUCIA ESTUARY; SOUTH AFRICA;

ACARTIA NATALENSIS; COPEPODA; FENNEROPENAEUS INDICUS; MESOPODOPSIS AFRICANA; MYSIDA; OIKOPLEURA DIOICA; PSEUDODIAPTOMUS STUHLMANNI;

EID: 76249114396     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08355     Document Type: Article

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