Use of glider-class acoustic Doppler profilers for estimating zooplankton biomass

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 563-568

  Powell, Jesse R ^a   Ohman, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic Doppler profiler; bioacoustics; zooplankton; Zooscan

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE; BIOACOUSTICS; BIOMASS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MICRONEKTON; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 84860466989     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: 14643774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbs023     Document Type: Article

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