Regional and temporal variation of Oithona spp. biomass, stage structure and productivity in the Irminger Sea, North Atlantic

• Published in: Journal of Plankton Research
• Main Authors: Castellani, C., Irigoien, X., Harris, R.P, Holliday, N.P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2007
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Zoology; Ecology and Environment; Irminger Sea; North Atlantic; Copepods
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1069/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1069/1/Castellani_et_al_JPR_2007.pdf; http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/fbm079?; https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbm079

Oithona spp. standing stock and production is considered relatively stable in space and time as a result of continuous breeding, low metabolism, reduced predation mortality and the ability of these small cyclopoids to exploit microbial food webs more efficiently than larger copepods. However, throug...