1. Biogeography of key mesozooplankton species in the North Atlantic, by manual counting methods, and egg production of Calanus finmarchicus
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Catherine Johnson, Guillem Chust, Høgni Debes, Astthor Gislason, Priscilla Licandro, Torkel Gissel Nielsen, Tone Falkenhaug, Barbara Niehoff, Sigrun Jonasdottir, Eilif Gaard, Stéphane Plourde, Jeffrey A. Runge, Erica J. H. Head, Pierre Pepin, James J. Pierson, Webjørn Melle, Claudia Castellani, Cecilie Broms, Michael R. Heath, and Erling Kaare Stenevik
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0106 biological sciences ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Ecology ,010604 marine biology & hydrobiology ,Calanus finmarchicus ,Biogeography ,Biology ,biology.organism_classification ,01 natural sciences ,Zooplankton ,Oceanography ,Taxon ,Abundance (ecology) ,Phytoplankton ,14. Life underwater ,Continuous Plankton Recorder ,Copepod ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
Here we present a new, pan-Atlantic compilation of data on key mesozooplankton species, including the possibly most important copepod, Calanus finmarchicus. Distributional data of ten representative zooplankton taxa, from recent (2000–2009) Continuous Plankton Recorder data, are presented, along with basin-scale data of the phytoplankton colour index. Then we present a compilation of data on C. finmarchicus including observations of abundance, demography, egg production and female size with accompanying data on temperature and chlorophyll. This is a contribution by Canadian, European and US scientists and their institutions. http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.820732, http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.824423, http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.828393.
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- 2014
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