Vertically migrating micronekton and macrozooplankton communities around Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 71, Issue , 2013, Pages 113-129

  Suntsov, Andrey ^a   Domokos, Réka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Central Gyre; Community structure; Diel vertical migration; Guam; Mesopelagic assemblages; Mesopelagic fish biomass; Micronekton; North Equatorial Countercurrent; North Equatorial Current; Northern Mariana Islands

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL GYRE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; DIEL VERTICAL MIGRATIONS; GUAM; MESOPELAGIC; MESOPELAGIC FISH; MICRONEKTON; NORTH EQUATORIAL COUNTERCURRENT; NORTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT; NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS;

FISH; FISHERIES; OCEAN HABITATS; SHELLFISH; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIEL MIGRATION; MESOPELAGIC ZONE; MICRONEKTON; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VERTICAL MIGRATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

GUAM; MARIANA ISLANDS; NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS;

CEPHALOPODA; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MYCTOPHIDAE; PISCES; SERGESTES; SERGIA; STOMIIDAE;

EID: 84870215604     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2012.10.009     Document Type: Article

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