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OAS accession Detail for 0000941
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Title: Zooplankton biomass & composition in the Western Bay of Bengal during late SW monsoon; 15 August 1978 to 07 September 1978 (NODC Accession 0000941)
Abstract: Copepoda formed the predominant group except in the southern region where a swarm of pelagic tunicates reduced their contribution to only 19% of the total zooplankton count. Decapod larvae occurred in fairly large numbers all along the coastal adn neritic regions of the southwestern Bay of Bengal. Other groups like chaetognaths, ostracods, amphipods, euphausiids, fish eggs, fish larvae, polychaetes, cladocerans, planktonic molluscs, etc. contributed to a lesser percentage of the general composition of zooplankton. Upwelling along the southern part of the western Bay of Bengal during this season may account for the rich zooplankton population towards the south.
Date received: 20030226
Start date: 19801101
End date: 19801115
Seanames: Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal
West boundary: 79.9
East boundary: 90.633333
North boundary: 20.866667
South boundary: 10.5
Observation types: chemical, physical, plankton, profile
Instrument types: bottle, net
Datatypes: NITRATE, OXYGEN, pH, phosphate, ZOOPLANKTON ABUNDANCE, ZOOPLANKTON BIOMASS
Submitter: Pitcher, Michelle
Submitting institution: UK National Institute of Oceanography
Collecting institutions: UK National Institute of Oceanography
Contributing projects: GODAR
Platforms: GAVESHANI (41GA)
Number of observations: 21
Supplementary information:
Availability date:
Metadata version: 4
Keydate: 2003-03-03 19:27:18+00
Editdate: 2011-09-19 16:19:17+00