Metazoan Microzooplankton in the Crimean Coastal Waters of the Black and Azov Seas in Spring: Composition, Abundance and Spatial Distribution
Journal: Journal of Siberian Federal University Biology
Year: 2019

The study was carried out during the 84 th expedition of RV "Professor Vodyanitsky" in the coastal waters of the Black and Azov Seas from 19 to 26 April 2016. The goal of the study was to assess the abundance and species composition of the "spring" micrometazooplankton (MMZP), providing previously unavailable data. A total of 59 samples were collected at 20 stations within the upper 50-m layer of water. The average MMZP abundance in the surface layer of the Black Sea waters was 14.8 5.8 thousand