Seasonal changes in the population structure of dominant planktonic copepods collected using a sediment trap moored in the western Arctic Ocean

• Published in: Journal of Natural History
• Main Authors: Matsuno, Kohei, Yamaguchi, Atsushi, Fujiwara, Amane, Onodera, Jonaotaro, Watanabe, Eiji, Harada, Naomi, Kikuchi, Takashi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis
• Subjects: copepods; population structure; lipid accumulation; gonad maturation; western Arctic Ocean; 660; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Northwind Abyssal Plain; Calanus hyperboreus; Zooplankton; Copepods
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/63006; https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1022613

Winter ice cover of the Arctic Ocean makes year-round zooplankton sampling by plankton net a difficult task. Therefore, the collection of copepods with a sediment trap can be a powerful tool. In the present study, we analysed the seasonal changes in the population structures of five dominant plankto...