Zooplankton fauna

Naomi, T S and Mathew, Ansy and George, J P and Giri, Sunirmal and Kaliamoorthy, M (2005) Zooplankton fauna. CMFRI Special Publication Mangrove ecosystems: A manual for the assessment of biodiversity, 83. pp. 36-82.

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    Abstract

    The zooplankton population consists of minute animals living freely in water with limited powers of locomotion and is more or less drifted passively by water currents. Almost every major group of animals, either as adults, larvae or as both has its representatives in planktonic existence. Many of the commercially important prawns, mussels, other shellfishes and finfishes start their life as plankters. The communities of zooplankton form the vital intermediary link in the food chain of the sea both as consumers of the primary producers and as contributors to the higher trophic level. Many species are proven indicators of pollution, water mass, cold, warm, surface or deep waters, upwelling characteristics and of the coastal or estuarine environment depending on the time of their occurrence and the ambient ecological parameters.

    Item Type: Article
    Uncontrolled Keywords: Zooplankton; Mangrove
    Subjects: Marine Biology > Zooplankton
    Marine Ecosystems > Mangroves
    Divisions: CMFRI-Kochi > Fishery Environment Management Division
    Subject Area > CMFRI > CMFRI-Kochi > Fishery Environment Management Division
    CMFRI-Kochi > Fishery Environment Management Division
    Subject Area > CMFRI-Kochi > Fishery Environment Management Division
    Depositing User: Arun Surendran
    Date Deposited: 04 Oct 2010 07:15
    Last Modified: 09 Sep 2015 15:23
    URI: http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/id/eprint/3689

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