Metazooplankton community structure, feeding rate estimates, and hydrography in a meltwater-influenced Greenlandic fjord

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 434, Issue , 2011, Pages 77-90

  Tang, Kam W ^a   Nielsen, Torkel Gissel ^b   Munk, Peter ^b   Mortensen, John ^c   Møller, Eva Friis ^d   Arendt, Kristine Engel ^c   Tönnesson, Kajsa ^e   Juul Pedersen, Thomas ^c  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^d NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate change; Copepod; Food web; Glacial fjord; Grazing; Greenland; Predation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL WATER; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DOMINANCE; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FOOD LIMITATION; FOOD WEB; GASTROPOD; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MELTWATER; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; WATER MASS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

CALANUS; CALANUS FINMARCHICUS; CALANUS GLACIALIS; CALANUS HYPERBOREUS; CHAETOGNATHA; COPEPODA; GASTROPODA; METRIDIA LONGA; MICROSETELLA; OITHONA; PAREUCHAETA NORVEGICA; PSEUDOCALANUS; ROTIFERA;

EID: 79961048142     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09188     Document Type: Article

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