Seasonal occurrence of Oithona similis (cyclopoida), Microsetella norvegica (harpacticoida) and Microcalanus spp. (calanoida), and productivity of O. similis, in three high-latitude Norwegian fjords.

• Main Author: Glad, Peter
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2018
• Subjects: VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Marinbiologi: 497; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Marine biology: 497; BIO-3950; Balsfjord
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/13557

The Seasonal population dynamics of the small copepod species Oithona similis (cyclopoida), Microsotella norvegica (harpacticoida) and Microcalanus spp. were investigated in the northern Norwegian fjords Balsfjord, Altafjord and Porsangerfjord. In this study a WP-2 net with 64 µm mesh size was used...