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Mesozooplankton biomass distribution in the upper 100 m layer of the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2004

Jury A. Rudjakov
Jury A. Rudjakov
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Plankton Ecology and Distribution, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 23 Krasikov St., Moscow 117218, Russia. email: grud@ocean.comcp.msk.su
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Abstract

The distribution of annual mean biomass of mesozooplankton (animals in the size range 0.2–20 mm) in the upper layer (0–100 m) of the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean was mapped. The map was constructed from 4216 measurements at 2184 oceanographic stations, from the Russian and Brazilian archive records, from published sources, and from the British Oceanographic Data Centre. The annual mean mesozooplankton biomass value for the South Atlantic is estimated in this study to be 93 mg m−3 wet weight.

Keywords

Antarcticabiogeographybiomassgeographical distributionzooplankton
Type
Papers-Life Sciences and Oceanography
Information
Antarctic Science , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , December 1996 , pp. 343 - 348
Copyright
© Antarctic Science Ltd 1996

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