Seasonal and diel vertical migration of zooplankton in the High Arctic during the autumn midnight sun of 2008

Marine Biodiversity

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 365-382

  Rabindranath, Ananda ^a   Daase, Malin ^b   Falk Petersen, Stig ^b,e   Wold, Anette ^b   Wallace, Margaret I ^d   Berge, Jørgen ^c   Brierley, Andrew S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c The University of Norway in Svalbard   (Norway)

^d NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; Calanus; Diel vertical migration; Phytoplankton bloom; Seasonal vertical migration

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; AUTUMN; BACKSCATTER; CRUSTACEAN; DATA ACQUISITION; DIEL MIGRATION; ECHO SOUNDER; FLUORESCENCE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEA ICE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHELF BREAK; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VERTICAL MIGRATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; KONGSFJORDEN; NORDAUSTLANDET; RIJPFJORDEN; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ALGAE; CALANUS; CALANUS FINMARCHICUS; CALANUS GLACIALIS; CALANUS HYPERBOREUS; METRIDIA LONGA;

EID: 80051943203     PISSN: 18671616     EISSN: 18671624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12526-010-0067-7     Document Type: Article

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