ZOOPL.ANKTON STANDING CROP IN THE ARCTIC BASIN1

• Main Author: Thomus L. Hopkins
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Amerasia Basin; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Eurasia Basin; Greenland; Arctic Basin; Phytoplankton; Zooplankton; Alaska; Copepods
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.500.8472; http://www.aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_14/issue_1/0080.pdf

An estimate of zooplankton standing crop in the central Arctic Ocean was obtained from 118 closing-net samples collected from Ice Islands T-3 and ARLIS II. The T-3 samples were taken from the anticyclonic gyre in the Amerasia Basin north of Alaska; the ARLIS II samples were collected from the Eurasi...