Ice-related seasonality in zooplankton community composition in a high Arctic fjord
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AGATA WEYDMANN1*, JANNE E. SØREIDE2, SŁAWEK KWAŚNIEWSKI1, EVA LEU3, STIG FALK-PETERSEN3,4 AND JØRGEN BERGE2,4 1 INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY, POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, POWSTANCOW WARSZAWY ST. 55, 81-712 SOPOT, POLAND, THE UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD, N-9171 LONGYEARBYEN, NORWAY, THE NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE, N-9296 TROMSØ, NORWAY AND FACULTY OF BIOSCIENCES, FISHERIES AND ECONOMICS, UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ, 9037 TROMSØ, NORWAY
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تاریخ انتشار 2013