Seasonal zooplankton dynamics in Svalbard coastal waters: The shifting dominance of mero- and holoplankton and timing of reproduction in three species of Copepoda

• Main Author: Nyeggen, Margot Ulfsdatter
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Bergen 2019
• Subjects: Meroplankton; Oithona; Svalbard; Seasonal dynamics; Reproduction; Pseudocalanus; Arctic; Calanus; Zooplankton; Holoplankton; Sea ice; 751999; Adventfjorden; Agardhbukta; Van Mijenfjorden; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/20058

Monthly sampling was conducted in the ice-free Adventfjorden in West Spitsbergen, Svalbard, from March to November 2018 to assess the seasonal development in the Arctic zooplankton community and to investigate the seasonally shifting importance of meroplankton and holoplankton. Special focus was put...