TY - JOUR
T1 - Copepods in Fram Strait in summer
T2 - distribution, feeding and metabolism
AU - Smith, S. L.
PY - 1988/1/1
Y1 - 1988/1/1
N2 - A summer study of zooplankton in the Fram Strait area of the Greenland Sea showed elevated abundances of herbivorous copepods in the marginal ice zone or ice-edge compared with copepod communities under the pack ice cover. Several physical factors contributed to this, including the large-scale current systems which deliver both North Atlantic and Arctic plankton to the ice-edge and the effect of melting ice and eddies in increasing primary productivity and standing stocks of phytoplankton. Abundances of female copepods at the ice-edge were largely a function of currents, while growth of juveniles was dependent on food supply which even at the ice-edge fell short of the calculated requirements of the dominant copepods. -from Author
AB - A summer study of zooplankton in the Fram Strait area of the Greenland Sea showed elevated abundances of herbivorous copepods in the marginal ice zone or ice-edge compared with copepod communities under the pack ice cover. Several physical factors contributed to this, including the large-scale current systems which deliver both North Atlantic and Arctic plankton to the ice-edge and the effect of melting ice and eddies in increasing primary productivity and standing stocks of phytoplankton. Abundances of female copepods at the ice-edge were largely a function of currents, while growth of juveniles was dependent on food supply which even at the ice-edge fell short of the calculated requirements of the dominant copepods. -from Author
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U2 - 10.1357/002224088785113720
DO - 10.1357/002224088785113720
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0024251048
VL - 46
SP - 145
EP - 181
JO - Journal of Marine Research
JF - Journal of Marine Research
SN - 0022-2402
IS - 1
ER -