Late-summer zooplankton community structure, abundance, and distribution in the Hudson Bay system (Canada) and their relationships with environmental conditions, 2003-2006

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 121-145

  Estrada, Rafael ^a,b   Harvey, Michel ^a   Gosselin, Michel ^b   Starr, Michel ^a   Galbraith, Peter S ^a   Straneo, Fiammetta ^c  

^a FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; PLANKTON;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; MULTIVARIATE TECHNIQUES; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS (RDA); SPATIAL DIFFERENTIATION; STRATIFIED ENVIRONMENTS; ZOOPLANKTON ASSEMBLAGES; ZOOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES;

BARIUM COMPOUNDS;

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOMASS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROGRAPH; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; ZOOPLANKTON;

CANADA; FOXE BASIN; HUDSON STRAIT; NUNAVUT;

ACARTIA LONGIREMIS; AEGINOPSIS LAURENTII; AMPHIPODA; CALANOIDA; CALANUS FINMARCHICUS; CALANUS GLACIALIS; CALANUS HYPERBOREUS; CHAETOGNATHA; CIRRIPEDIA; CNIDARIA; ECHINODERMATA; EUKROHNIA HAMATA; HYPERIIDAE; METRIDIA LONGA; MICROCALANUS; MOLLUSCA; OITHONA SIMILIS; ONCAEA BOREALIS; POLYCHAETA; PSEUDOCALANUS; PTEROPODA; SAGITTA ELEGANS;

EID: 84861455968     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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