Distribution of euphausiids in the Kuroshio front and warm water tongue with special reference to the surface aggregation of Euphausia pacifica

• Published in: Journal of Plankton Research
• Main Authors: Nishikawa, Jun, Tsuda, Atsushi, Ishigaki, Tetsuji, Terazaki, Makoto
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1995
• Subjects: ORIGINAL ARTICLES; Oyashio; Subarctic; Copepods
• Online Access: http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/17/3/611; https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/17.3.611

The distribution of euphausiids and other macrozooplankton was investigated in and around the Kuroshio front formed in the Ka.shima-nada Sea. Japan. during the summer of 1993. Zooplankton were dominated by copepods, chaetognaths and euphausiids. and their biomass was significantly higher at the fron...