Vertical distribution of Arctic zooplankton in summer: eastern Canadian archipelago

• Published in: Journal of Plankton Research
• Main Authors: Longhurst, Alan, Sameoto, Douglas, Herman, Alex
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1984
• Subjects: Articles; Arctic; Kane; Canadian Archipelago; Kane Basin; Zooplankton
• Online Access: http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/6/1/137; https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/6.1.137

Twenty-three LHPR hauls from 700 m, or near the bottom, in the eastern Canadian Arctic passages indicate that diel migration is absent or negligible in late summer, and that seasonal and ontogenetic migrations dominate the pattern of zooplankton vertical distribution. Though there is some relationsh...