Population dynamics of four dominant copepods in Prydz Bay, Antarctica, during austral summer from 1999 to 2006 |
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| Authors: | Guang Yang Chaolun Li Song Sun |
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| Institution: | YANG Guang 1,2,LI Chaolun 1,**,SUN Song 1,3 1 Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences,Institute of Oceanology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Qingdao 266071,China 2 Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China 3 Jiaozhou Bay Marine Ecosystem Research Station,China |
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| Abstract: | Population dynamics of four dominant Antarctic copepods, Calanoides acutus, Calanus propinquus, Metridia gerlachei and Rhincalanus gigas were studied based on zooplankton samples collected in the Prydz Bay during austral summer from 1999 to 2006. We found that C. acutus was the most abundant species among these four copepods, followed by C. propinquus, M. gerlachei and R. gigas. R. gigas occurred mainly in the warmer oceanic regions and showed distribution patterns discrete from the other three species, who... |
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| Keywords: | copepods population structure inter-annual variations Prydz Bay Southern Ocean |
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