Inter-annual fluctuations of zooplankton communities in the Bay of Villefranche-sur-mer from 1995 to 2005 (Northern Ligurian Sea, France)

Biogeosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3143-3158

  Vandromme, P ^a,b   Stemmann, L ^a   Berline, L ^a,c   Gasparini, S ^a   Mousseau, L ^a   Prejger, F ^a   Passafiume, O ^a   Guarini, J M ^d,e   Gorsky, G ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULON   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL A; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; NUTRIENT BUDGET; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITY; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; TROPHIC STATUS; VERTICAL MIXING; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALPES MARITIMES; BAY OF VILLEFRANCHE; FRANCE; LIGURIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR;

APPENDICULARIA (CLASS); CHAETOGNATHA; COPEPODA; CRUSTACEA; PTEROPODA; THALIACEA;

EID: 80755188199     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-8-3143-2011     Document Type: Article

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