Ten years after: Krill as indicator of changes in the macro-zooplankton communities of two Arctic fjords

Polar Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 101-113

  Buchholz, Friedrich ^a   Buchholz, Cornelia ^a   Weslawski, Jan Marcin ^b  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arctic fjords; Euphausiids; Global warming; Krill; Lipids; Macro zooplankton; Moult

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CRUSTACEAN; FOOD WEB; GLOBAL WARMING; HISTOLOGY; LIPID; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MOLT; TROPHIC CASCADE; ZOOPLANKTON;

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

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIACEA; EUPHAUSIIDAE; THYSANOESSA INERMIS;

EID: 77949775358     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-009-0688-0     Document Type: Article

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