Overlapping size ranges of Calanus spp. off the Canadian Arctic and Atlantic Coasts: impact on species' abundances

• Published in: Journal of Plankton Research
• Main Authors: Parent, Genevieve J., Plourde, Stephane, Turgeon, Julie
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2011
• Subjects: Article; Arctic; Labrador Shelf; Calanus finmarchicus; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/fbr072v1; https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbr072

In the North Atlantic, Calanus finmarchicus , C. glacialis and C. hyperboreus are identified based on subtle morphological traits, which is fastidious, or based on their allegedly non-overlapping prosome length ranges. We reappraised the prosome length-based diagnosis for the copepodite stage V stag...