The South China Sea (SCS) is the largest tropical marginal sea in the western Pacific
Ocean. While the [Formula: see text] proxy is known to reflect the sea surface temperature …

Although mesozooplankton are important components of aquatic food webs and
biogeochemical cycling, this plankton fraction is inadequately described and quantified …

The subtropical gyres occupy approximately 40% of the surface of the Earth and are widely
recognized as oligotrophic zones. Among them, the South Pacific subtropical gyre (SPSG) …

Cla. furcatus, Paracalanus aculeatus, P. nanus, Temora turbinata, Oncaea conifera, and
Onc. venusta) were common in Kuroshio waters. However, zooplankton associations …

Acartia negligens, Clausocalanus mastigophorus, Cosmocalanus darwini, and Lucicutia
flavicornis are indicator species of the KC in winter when the northeast monsoon (NEM) …

The relationships between the small cyclopoid copepod Oithona and hydrological factors,
phytoplankton and ichthyoplankton were evaluated using the data obtained in the central …

Extreme oceanic environments such as shallow hydrothermal vents (HVs) have rarely been
investigated with respect to their impact on the water column and its organisms, such as …

Chi Chou, Li-Chun Tseng, Ching-Hsiewn Ou, Qing-Chao Chen, and Jiang-Shiou Hwang
(2012) Seasonal succession of planktonic copepods in bight environments of northeastern …

Copepods are claimed to be numerically the most abundant metazoans on earth and
conservative estimations revealed that they likely outnumber the abundance of insects …

Biomass and grazing impact of three size fractions of mesozooplankton were investigated
across a wide range of trophic conditions in northern South China Sea (SCS) during four …