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Influence of environmental factors on microzooplankton communities (Mljet island, Southern Adriatic, Croatia)

This study sheds light on the influence of changing environmental conditions on microzooplankton in the semi -enclosed marine system. Temperature separated taxa into distinct thermo- and cryophilic communities. Unusually high precipitation during the spring and summer of 2014 caused extended hypoxia in the fall that affected the abundance and vertical distribution of all taxa. Small copepods Oithona similis, Mesaiokeras hurei, Monothula subtilis, Oncaea zernovi, and polychaeta trochophore comprised a community adapted to the hypoxic bottom layer (10% - 14% dissolved oxygen).

zooplankton ; hydrography ; anoxia ; Mediterranean Sea

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