Accelerated recruitment of copepod Calanus hyperboreus in pelagic slope waters of the western Arctic Ocean

• Published in: Acta Oceanologica Sinica
• Main Authors: Xu Zhiqiang, Zhang Guangtao, Sun Song
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: SPRINGER 2018
• Subjects: continental slope; prosome length; population structure; food availability; life cycle; Oceanography; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Chukchi Abyssal Plain; Chukchi Sea; Arctic copepod; Calanus hyperboreus; Chukchi
• Online Access: http://ir.qdio.ac.cn/handle/337002/157576; https://doi.org/10.1007/s13131-018-1166-8

Shelf-basin advection is essential to subsistence of the Arctic copepod Calanus hyperboreus population in high basin area. Its abundance, population structure and body size in pelagic layer were investigated with samples collected over a large range in the western Arctic Ocean during summer 2003, to...