Table VI:

Zooplankton abundance m⁻³ (mean ± 1 SD), percent composition and biomass (mg C m⁻³) for copepods at the four depths: near-substrate, 0.5 and 2.0 m off the bottom (mab) and surface

Zooplankton taxon	Near substrate				0.5 mab				2.0 mab				Near surface
	Abund.	%	Biom.	%	Abund.	%	Biom	%	Abund.	%	Biom	%	Abund.	%	Biom.	%
Calanoids
Acartia	334.6 ± 65.8	11.2	0.904	29.4	893.5 ± 236.4	24.6	2.414	48.5	718.4 ± 90.2	15.0	1.941	36.8	157.6 ± 62.0	3.0	0.426	6.4
Calanopia	3.7 ± 0.0	0.1	0.024	0.8	8.5 ± 5.2	0.2	0.053	1.1	6.4 ± 2.8	0.1	0.040	0.8	4.9 ± 3.1	0.1	0.031	0.5
Calanus	2.0 ± 2.8	0.1	0.008	0.3	83.8 ± 41.1	2.3	0.340	6.8	141.7 ± 40.6	3.0	0.574	10.9	327.4 ± 62.7	6.3	1.327	19.8
Calocalanus	16.5 ± 10.4	0.6	0.030	1.0	24.2 ± 12.6	0.7	0.044	0.9	25.4 ± 4.3	0.5	0.046	0.9	68.0 ± 20.5	1.3	0.124	1.8
Candacia	0.1 ± 0.1	<0.1	0.009	0.3	3.5 ± 4.6	0.1	0.234	4.7	0.7 ± 0.5	<0.1	0.043	0.8	2.0 ± 1.9	<0.1	0.133	2.0
Eucalanus	0.1 ± 0.1	<0.1	0.000	<0.1	0.4 ± 0.6	<0.1	0.002	<0.1	1.8 ± 1.4	<0.1	0.007	0.1	0.4 ± 0.3	<0.1	0.002	<0.1
Labidocera	0.2 ± 0.2	<0.1	0.017	0.6	0.6 ± 0.3	<0.1	0.045	0.9	0.1 ± 0.0	<0.1	0.010	0.2	1.7 ± 0.5	<0.1	0.133	2.0
Paracalanus	34.6 ± 11.7	1.2	0.140	4.5	5.9 ± 4.2	0.2	0.024	0.5	25.0 ± 13.8	0.5	0.101	1.9	23.1 ± 9.9	0.4	0.094	1.4
Temora	6.4 ± 4.5	0.2	0.040	1.3	10.8 ± 4.6	0.3	0.068	1.4	26.8 ± 8.2	0.6	0.169	3.2	93.4 ± 51.0	1.8	0.588	8.8
Calanoid unid.	39.1 ± 4.2	1.3	0.159	5.1	84.5 ± 34.8	2.3	0.343	6.9	164.0 ± 18.5	3.4	0.665	12.6	257.2 ± 93.2	4.9	1.043	15.6
Harpacticoids
Tegastidae	39.3 ± 11.0	1.3	0.096	3.1	15.8 ± 1.0	0.4	0.039	0.8	3.8 ± 0.8	0.1	0.009	0.2	NP
Laophontidae	213.5 ± 29.8	7.2	0.522	16.9	79.7 ± 23.3	2.2	0.195	3.9	60.2 ± 24.4	1.3	0.147	2.8	20.3 ± 6.6	0.4	0.050	0.7
Macrosetella	0.7 ± 0.4	<0.1	0.002	0.1	1.9 ± 0.2	0.1	0.005	0.1	3.6 ± 3.2	0.1	0.009	0.2	10.7 ± 3.2	0.2	0.026	0.4
Microsetella	4.6 ± 3.9	0.2	0.011	0.4	5.8 ± 0.1	0.2	0.014	0.3	8.1 ± 1.9	0.2	0.020	0.4	25.5 ± 11.8	0.5	0.062	0.9
Unidentified	3.3 ± 0.6	0.1	0.008	0.3	2.4 ± 2.6	0.1	0.006	0.1	1.7 ± 1.1	<0.1	0.004	0.1	8.5 ± 2.1	0.2	0.021	0.3
Cyclopoids
Oithona	962.6 ± 212.0	32.3	0.718	23.3	1117.7 ± 429.4	30.8	0.834	16.7	1359 ± 157.6	28.4	1.014	19.2	1510 ± 301.8	29.0	1.126	16.8
Cyclopoid unid	23.6 ± 2.0	0.8	0.018	0.6	15.3 ± 2.4	0.4	0.012	0.2	15.1 ± 2.7	0.3	0.011	0.2	13.6 ± 5.7	0.3	0.010	0.2
Poecilostomatoids
Copilia	12.8 ± 0.2	0.4	0.031	1.0	3.6 ± 1.5	0.1	0.009	0.2	2.6 ± 00.7	0.1	0.006	0.1	NP
Corycaeus	24.8 ± 10.8	0.8	0.007	0.2	31.3 ± 20.1	0.9	0.009	0.2	57.9 ± 11.8	1.2	0.016	0.3	149.7 ± 34.0	2.9	0.042	0.6
Oncaea	12.4 ± 3.0	0.4	0.009	0.3	3.2 ± 1.9	0.1	0.002	<0.1	7.6 ± 0.9	0.2	0.006	0.1	9.3 ± 7.9	0.2	0.007	0.1
Sapphirella	1.4 ± 0.0	<0.1	0.001	<0.1	3.8 ± 1.6	0.1	0.003	0.1	4.3 ± 5.6	0.1			1.9 ± 0.43	<0.1	0.002	<0.1
Sapphirina	1.5 ± 0.1	0.1	0.000	<0.1	3.6 ± 1.1	0.1	0.001	<0.1	NP				0.7 ± 0.2	<0.1	0.000	<0.1
Monstrilloids	0.2 ± 0.2	<0.1	0.009	0.3	0.3 ± 0.4	<0.1	0.016	0.3	NP				0.1 ± 0.2		0.008	0.1
Copepodites	151.6 ± 55.8	5.1	0.118	3.8	81.7 ± 39.3	2.3	0.064	1.3	72.0 ± 9.3	1.5	0.056	1.1	58.7 ± 5.1	1.1	0.046	0.7
Nauplii	1091 ± 205.5	36.6	0.200	6.5	1143.7 ± 211.5	31.5	0.209	4.2	2083.2 ± 18.6	43.5	0.381	7.2	2461.2 ± 22.9	47.3	0.450	6.7
Exoskeletonsa	582 ± 292				643 ± 2725				462 ± 270				305 ± 169.2

NP, not present. Most unidentified copepods were copepodite stages.

^aExoskeletons are not included in estimates of copepod or total zooplankton abundance.