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Zooplankton of the southwest coast of India: abundance, composition, temporal and spatial variability in 1987

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Title Zooplankton of the southwest coast of India: abundance, composition, temporal and spatial variability in 1987
 
Creator Madhupratap, M.
Haridas, P.
Ramaiah, Neelam
Achuthankutty, C.T.
 
Description During early southwest and northeast monsoon periods of 1967, zooplankton standing stocks and abundances were high all along the west coast of India. Swarms of zooplankton were common in the shelf areas resulting in a low diversity-high biomass community. Paradoxically, this happened when nutrient concentrations and phytoplankton biomass were low. The zooplankton `high` might have arose from an earlier nutrient enrichment through land run-off and increased phytoplankton or through the microbial loop. Distinct coastal and offshore communities among copepods were discernible. Their distributions did not show much change among seasons indicating an ability to maintain their positions in the preferred niches. Niche-partitioning among congeners was indicated
 
Date 2009-05-08T08:58:52Z
2009-05-08T08:58:52Z
1992
 
Type Conference Article
 
Identifier Oceanography of the Indian Ocean. Ed. by: Desai, B.N., 99-112p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/2959
 
Language en
 
Rights Copyright [1992]. All efforts have been made to respect the copyright to the best of our knowledge. Inadvertent omissions, if brought to our notice, stand for correction and withdrawal of document from this repository.
 
Publisher Oxford and IBH, New Delhi