Environmental cues and constraints affecting the seasonality of dominant calanoid copepods in brackish, coastal waters: A case study of Acartia, Temora and Eurytemora species in the south-west Baltic

Marine Biology

Volumn 159, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2399-2414

  Diekmann, A Berenike S ^a   Clemmesen, Catriona ^b   St John, Michael A ^a,c   Paulsen, Matthias ^b   Peck, Myron A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CHLOROPHYLL A; COASTAL WATER; CRUSTACEAN; EGG PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; PHENOLOGY; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SEASONALITY; SURVIVAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; NORTH SEA;

ACARTIA; CALANOIDA; COPEPODA; EURYTEMORA; EURYTEMORA AFFINIS; TEMORA; TEMORA LONGICORNIS;

EID: 84868501746     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-012-1955-0     Document Type: Article

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