Effects of water temperature and mixed layer depth on zooplankton body size

Marine Biology

Volumn 159, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2431-2440

  Sebastian, Patrizia ^a   Stibor, Herwig ^a,b   Berger, Stella ^a,c,d   Diehl, Sebastian ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

^c SKIDAWAY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BODY SIZE; CRUSTACEAN; ECTOTHERMY; GLOBAL WARMING; LIFE CYCLE; MIXED LAYER; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SIZE STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER TEMPERATURE; ZOOPLANKTON;

DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA HYALINA;

EID: 84868456861     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-012-1931-8     Document Type: Article

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