Progress of Chinese zooplankton ecology research in Prydz Bay, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Chaolun, Li, Guang, Yang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polar Research Institute of China - PRIC 2017
• Subjects: Fauna; Oceans; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Prydz Bay; Zhongshan; Zhongshan Station; Advances in Polar Science; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Antarctica; Euphausia superba; Polar Science; Copepods
• Online Access: http://library.arcticportal.org/2631/; http://library.arcticportal.org/2631/1/A1702005.pdf

Zooplankton are considered an important trophic link between primary producers and higher trophic level species in the Southern Ocean ecosystem. Since 1989, when the Chinese Antarctic Zhongshan Station was built, zooplankton have regularly been sampled and investigated in Prydz Bay through oceanogra...