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Título: Zooplankton distribution and feeding in the Arctic Ocean during a Phaeocystis pouchetii bloom
Autores/as: Saiz, Enric
Calbet, Albert
Isari, Stamatina
Antó, Meritxell
Velasco, Eva M.
Almeda García, Rodrigo 
Movilla, Juancho
Alcaraz, Miquel
Clasificación UNESCO: 251001 Oceanografía biológica
Palabras clave: Arctic
Fram Strait
Spitsbergen
Greenland
Zooplankton, et al.
Fecha de publicación: 2013
Proyectos: ATOS - Atmospheric inputs of organic carbon and pollutants to the polar ocean: rates, significance and outlook (POL2006-00550/CTM)
PERFIL(CTM 2006-12344-C02-01)
Publicación seriada: Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 
Resumen: In early summer 2007 we determined the vertical distribution of mesozooplankton (>200 μm) and assessed the copepod feeding rates in 19 stations distributed along the East Greenland Current and the Fram Strait. The study coincided with a bloom of the haptophyte Phaeocystis pouchetii in the colonial form. Copepods dominated the zooplankton community numerically, and were mainly distributed within the upper 150 m (except for Metridia longa and Oithona spp., that inhabited deeper waters), without showing a clear avoidance of the P. pouchetii layer. Copepod diet was diverse, ciliates having a relevant share (40% of the diet). Copepods also displayed active grazing upon the colonies of P. pouchetii. In general, feeding rates were low (on average, daily ration was 1.6% of body carbon), likely due to the scarcity of nano and microplankton during the study (<100 μg C L−1). Consequently, the trophic impacts on both the nano- and microplankton standing stocks and on primary production were negligible. These results suggest that during the period of study the transfer of carbon and energy from lower trophic levels towards copepods was low.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/75475
ISSN: 0967-0637
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2012.10.003
Fuente: Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers [ISSN 0967-0637], v. 72, p. 17-33
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