Plankton in waters adjacent to the Laje de Santos state marine conservation park, Brazil: spatio-temporal distribution surveys
Abstract The coastal marine plankton plays a major role in ecosystem functioning by linking pelagic and benthonic environments through energy fluxes. Understanding the dynamic of planktonic organisms is also crucial for conservation and management purposes. Plankton was sampled at ten sites in the w...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidade de São Paulo
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Oceanography |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-87592017000400564&lng=en&tlng=en |