Copepods were identified, staged, and enumerated several JGOFS and GLOBEC cruises in the Arabian Sea between 1994 and 1995.

Relevant References:

Drapun, I. and S.L. Smith. 2011. Halocyprid Ostracods of the Arabian Sea Region. Sultan Qaboos University Academic Publication Board, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, 223pp.

Lane, P.V.Z. and S.L. Smith. 1997. United States Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (U.S. JGOFS) Technical Report: Zooplankton biomass in the upper water column of the Arabian Sea in 1994 and 1995. RSMAS Technical Report 97007, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami Press, Miami, FL, 23pp.

Lane, P.V.Z., S.L. Smith, J. Zaragoza, I. Prusova and M. Roman. 1998. United States Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (U.S. JGOFS) Technical Report: Copepod taxonomy, abundance and biomass in the upper 300 meters of t he Arabian Sea during the Southwest Monsoon (August/September) of 1995. RSMAS Technical Report 98007, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami Press, Miami, FL, 409pp.

Lane, P.V.Z., S.L. Smith, J. Zaragoza and I. Prusova. 1999. United States Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (U.S. JGOFS) Technical Report: Copepod taxonomy, abundance and biomass in the upper 300 meters of the Arabian Sea during the Northeast Monsoon (December) of 1995. RSMAS Technical Report 99004, Rosenstiel School of Marin eand Atmospheric Science, University of Miami Press, Miami, FL, 306pp.

Prusova, I., S.L. Smith, and E. Popova. 2011. Calanoid Copepods of the Arabian Sea Region. Sultan Qaboos University Academic Publication Board, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, 240pp.

Roman, M., S. Smith, K. Wishner, X. Zhang and M. Gowing. 2000. Mesozooplankton production and grazing in the Arabian Sea. Deep-Sea Research II, 47, 1423-1450.

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Smith, S.L., M. Roman, I Prusova, K. Wishner, M. Gowing, L.A. Codispoti, R. Barber, J. Marra and C. Flagg. 1998. Seasonal response of zooplankton to monsoonal reversals in the Arabian Sea. Deep-Sea Research, 45 (10-11), 2369-2403. doi:10.1016/S0967-0645(98)00075-7

Wiebe, P.H., K.H. Burt, S.H. Boyd and A.W. Morton. 1976. A multiple opening-closing net and envirometal sensing system for sampling zooplankton. Journal of Marine Research, 34, 312-326.

Wiebe, P.H., A.W. Morton, A.M. Bradley, J.E. Craddock, T.J. Cowles, V.A. Barber, R.H. Backus and G.R. Flierl. 1985. New developments in the MOCNESS, an apparatus for sampling zooplankton and micronekton. Marine Biology, 87, 313-323.

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