Distribution of Zooplankton community in King's Bay, Svalbard, 2002

Zooplankton community consisted of six taxa including eight species of copepods, hydrozoans, chaetognaths, polychaetes, appedicularians, and Ophiopluteus larvae. Copepods were dominant group and showed highest value in the frequency of abundance with 89.8% of total zooplankton.

Among the zooplanktons, copepods, Pseudocalanus minutus, Pseudocalanus acuspes, Calanus glacialis, Calanus fimmarchicus, Oithona similis, Oithona atlantica, Oncaea sp. and Microsetella sp. were identified. Mean abundance was 2,348 inds./m3 ranging from 835 indv./m3 at st.4 to 6,232 indv./m3at st. 2. during the study periods. Zooplankton abundances were affected by the fluctuations of temperature and salinity.