Decadal changes in zooplankton of the Northeast U.S. continental shelf.

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Hongsheng Bi, Rubao Ji, Hui Liu, Young-Heon Jo, Jonathan A Hare
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; The Gib; Calanus finmarchicus; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087720; https://doaj.org/article/5139bd00c5384086b5a985f42f34f36e

The abundance of the subarctic copepod, Calanus finmarchicus, and temperate, shelf copepod, Centropages typicus, was estimated from samples collected bi-monthly over the Northeast U.S. continental shelf (NEUS) from 1977-2010. Latitudinal variation in long term trends and seasonal patterns for the tw...