The South Channel Ocean Productivity EXperiment

The South Channel Ocean Productivity EXperiment (SCOPEX) was a multidisciplinary study of a whale-zooplankton predator-prey system in the southwestern Gulf of Maine, focusing on the oceanographic factors responsible for the development of dense patches of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus, which comp...

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Published in:Continental shelf research 1995, Vol.15 (4), p.373-384
Main Authors: Kenney, Robert D., Wishner, Karen F.
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Eubalaena glacialis
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