Temperature and zooplankton size structure: climate control and basin-scale comparison in the North Pacific.

ABSTRACT: The global distribution of zooplankton community structure is known to follow latitudinal temperature gradients: larger species in cooler, higher latitudinal regions. However, interspecific relationships between temperature and size in zooplankton communities have not been fully examined in terms of temporal variation. To re-examine the relationship on a temporal scale and the effects of climate control thereon, we investigated the variation in copepod size structure in the eastern and western subarctic North Pacific in 2000-2011. This report presents the first basin-scale comparison of zooplankton community changes in the North Pacific based on a fully standardized data set obtained from the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey. We found an increase in copepod community size (CCS) af

SUBMITTER: Chiba S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4338978 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature