Contemporary mesozooplankton communities of the Beaufort Sea

• Main Author: Smoot, Caitlin A.
• Other Authors: Hopcroft, Russell, Winsor, Peter, Coyle, Kenneth
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Arctic; Barrow Canyon; Fairbanks; Mackenzie River; Barrow; Beaufort Sea; Mackenzie river; Mesozooplankton; Zooplankton; Alaska; Copepods
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/6156

Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2015 Zooplankton are critical trophic links and important modifiers of organic carbon cycles, yet are poorly characterized for much of the Arctic's Beaufort Sea, particularly in mesopelagic (> 200 m) waters. Zooplankton were sampled with 150 and...