The Copepoda (Calanoida, Cyclopoida) of Northern Baffin Bay and Southern Nares Strait: Their Distribution and Aspects of Their Biology.

• Main Author: Tidmarsh,W. Gordon
• Other Authors: ARCTIC INST OF NORTH AMERICA WASHINGTON D C
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1973
• Subjects: Biological Oceanography; (*CRUSTACEA; DISTRIBUTION); (*ARCTIC OCEAN; CRUSTACEA); IDENTIFICATION; LIFE CYCLES; GROWTH(PHYSIOLOGY); REPRODUCTION(PHYSIOLOGY); SAMPLING; BAFFIN ISLAND; NARES STRAIT; BAFFIN BAY; BATHYMETRY; *COPEPODA; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Baffin Bay; Baffin Island; Nares; Arctic Basin; Baffin; Nares strait
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0759793; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0759793

Plankton samples collected at sixty stations in northern Baffin Bay and southern Nares Strait between 1968 and 1970 are analyzed. Thirty-six copepod species are identified. Their distributions are controlled by bathymetric and oceanographic features of these regions. Distributions of indicator speci...