Zooplankton distribution across Fram Strait in autumn: Are small copepods and protozooplankton important?

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 534-544

  Svensen, Camilla ^a   Seuthe, Lena ^a   Vasilyeva, Yulia ^b   Pasternak, Anna ^b   Hansen, Edmond ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC WATER; CALANOID COPEPODS; CALANUS; COPEPODITES; FRAM STRAIT; MICROBIAL FOOD WEB; PLANKTON COMMUNITIES; POLAR WATERS; STRONG LINK; WATER MASS; ZOOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES; ZOOPLANKTON DISTRIBUTIONS;

ALGAE CONTROL; ECOLOGY; OCEAN HABITATS;

PHYTOPLANKTON;

ABUNDANCE; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; AUTUMN; BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CRUSTACEAN; DIAPAUSE; DOMINANCE; FOOD WEB; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER MASS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARCTIC; FRAM STRAIT;

CALANOIDA; CALANUS; COPEPODA; OITHONA;

EID: 81455154442     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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