Fine- to basin-scale distributions of Calanus finmarchicus and its predators in three deep basins of the Gulf of Maine during December 1998 and 1999 from Video Plankton Recorder (VPR) data

• Main Author: Briseño-Avena, Christian
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: LSU Digital Commons 2009
• Subjects: Calanus finmarchicus; Gulf of Maine; Video Plankton Recorder; Predator-Prey Interactions; Physical-Biological Interactions; Three-dimensional distributions; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Wilkinson; North Atlantic; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/1581; https://doi.org/10.31390/gradschool_theses.1581; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/context/gradschool_theses/article/2580/viewcontent/Briseno_Thesis.pdf

The calanoid copepod Calanus finmarchicus is broadly distributed in the North Atlantic, where it dominates the spring zooplankton biomass of shelf ecosystems. Calanus finmarchicus diapauses in the deep basins of the Gulf of Maine (GOM) during late-summer through early-winter. During diapause, predat...