Evaluating top-down and bottom-up drivers of temporal mesozooplankton community variability in a temperate

Weicheng Wang1, Nan Wang2, Yantao Wang2

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Mariculture Breeding, Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology of Fujian Province, Institute of Oceanology, College of Marine Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China; CAS Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China; Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266237, China.

Marine Pollution Bulletin
|October 23, 2024
PubMed

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