Macrozooplankton distribution around the Antarctic Divergence off Wilkes Land in the 1996 austral summer: with reference to high abundance of Salpa thompsoni

• Main Authors: Sanae Chiba, Naho Horimoto, Riki Satoh, Yukuya Yamaguchi, Takashi Ishimaru
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: key words; macrozooplankton; distribution; Antarctic Divergence; Wilkes Land; Salpa thompsoni; Antarctic; Austral; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.528.1707; http://polaris.nipr.ac.jp/~penguin/polarbiosci/issues/pdf/1998-Chiba.pdf

Abstract: Distribution and abundance of macrozooplankton off Wilkes Land, Antarctica in austral summer were studied in relation to environmental features associated with the Antarctic Divergence (AD). A single species of salp, Salpa thompsoni, dominated others both numerically and by biomass, occupy...