Copepod Community Structure of the Winter Frontal Zone Induced by the Kuroshio Branch Current and the China Coastal Current in the Taiwan Strait

Spatio-Temporal Variations of Zooplankton and Correlations with Environmental Parameters around Tiaowei Island, Fujian, China

“…In the present study, the major group mainly included several Cyclopoida (mainly including Corycaeus affinis and Oithona similis) and Calanoida (mainly including Paracalanus crassirostris, Acartia pacifica, P. parvusand Subeucalanus subcrassus), which was consistent with zooplankton structures from other Chinese coasts [25]. Meanwhile, these copepods are widely distributed in the East China Sea and Taiwan Strait [33][34][35][36][37], suggesting regional distribution characteristics and a local community structure of zooplankton. The dominance of copepods in the zooplankton community was well-documented in various estuaries across the world in both tropical and temperate regions [14,38,39], indicating that their composition can be an important bio-indicator for environmental monitoring.…”

Marine bioinvasions: Differences in tropical copepod communities between inside and outside a port

“…In the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean, T. turbinata has mainly been found in coastal ecosystems (Ara, 2002;Silva et al, 2003Silva et al, , 2004Sterza and Fernandes, 2006) and on the inner continental shelf (Campos et al, 2017). In the Taiwan Strait, this species is restricted to neritic environments, rather than being limited by temperature or salinity (Lan et al, 2009).…”