Zooplankton distribution and feeding in the Arctic Ocean during a Phaeocystis pouchetii bloom

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 72, Issue , 2013, Pages 17-33

  Saiz, Enric ^a   Calbet, Albert ^a   Isari, Stamatina ^a   Antó, Meritxell ^a   Velasco, Eva M ^b   Almeda, Rodrigo ^a   Movilla, Juancho ^a   Alcaraz, Miquel ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arctic; Copepod; Diet; Feeding; Fram Strait; Greenland; Phaeocystis; Spitsbergen; Vertical distribution; ZooImage; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC; COPEPOD; FRAM STRAIT; GREENLAND; PHAEOCYSTIS; SPITSBERGEN; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; ZOOIMAGE; ZOOPLANKTON;

BLOOMS (METAL); CARBON; NUTRITION;

FEEDING;

CILIATE; COLONIAL ORGANISM; CRUSTACEAN; DIET; DOMINANCE; ENERGY FLOW; FEEDING; GRAZING; MICROPLANKTON; NANOPLANKTON; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; STRAIT; TROPHIC CASCADE; TROPHIC LEVEL; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; FRAM STRAIT; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

CILIOPHORA; COPEPODA; HAPTOPHYCEAE; METRIDIA LONGA; OITHONA; PHAEOCYSTIS; PHAEOCYSTIS POUCHETII;

EID: 84870853657     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2012.10.003     Document Type: Article

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