Copepod community structure related to environmental factors from a summer cruise in the Gulf of Gabès (Tunisia, eastern Mediterranean Sea)

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 145-157

  Drira, Zaher ^a   Belhassen, Malika ^b   Ayadi, Habib ^a   Hamza, Asma ^b   Zarrad, Rafik ^b   Bouaïn, Abderrahmen ^a   Aleya, Lotfi ^c  

^a Faculté des Sciences de Sfax   (Tunisia)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LA MER   (Tunisia)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Acartia clausi; Copepods; Gulf of Gab s; Oithona nana; Physico chemical parameters

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CHLOROPHYLL A; CRUSTACEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; PREY SELECTION; SALINITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPHIC LEVEL; ZOOPLANKTON;

GULF OF GABES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ACARTIA CLAUSII; ACARTIIDAE; BACILLARIOPHYCEAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CILIOPHORA; COPEPODA; DICTYOCHOPHYCEAE; DINOPHYCEAE; EUGLENIDA; OITHONA NANA; OITHONIDAE; TINTINNIDA;

EID: 77953619675     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315409990403     Document Type: Article

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