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	Abstract,Marine Science, Otago University , New Zealand
		Concentrations of larvae of cancrid, pinnotherid, and "coastal" crabs and rockfishes were high south of Point Reyes but were low or absent in the newly upwelled water north of the point.
		Several intertidal crab species and early-stage cancrid crabs were concentrated in San Francisco Bay outflow water, and coastal Gulf water late-stage cancrid crabs, early- and late-stage pinnotherid crabs, and rockfishes were concentrated at the frontal region between newly upwelled and Gulf water.
		The high concentrations of meroplankton observed suggest that the Gulf of the Farallones is an important retention area for larvae that settle into coastal populations in the Gulf and to the north via poleward transport during upwelling relaxation.
	www.otago.ac.nz /MarineScience/staff/srw/SRWabsC.htm (0 words)

	Meroplankton distribution in the Central Barents Sea in relation to local oceanographic patterns
		Abundance and spatio-temporal distribution of meroplankton (larvae of invertebrate benthos) in the Central Barents Sea and their dependence on abiotic factors were investigated.
		The same species were present; but the distribution patterns were less distinct, diversity values were higher and most larvae were further developed than in May. Distribution patterns of the larvae were to a large extent determined by physical processes in the area of the Polar Front, which acted as a distinct barrier in surface waters.
		In May, four meroplankton assemblages were distinguished; each associated with a different water mass.
	www.awi-bremerhaven.de /Publications/Maj2001a_abstract.html (0 words)

	meroplankton - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Meroplankton spend only the larval or early stages of their life as part of the plankton and spend their adult lives on the reef.
		Meroplankton definition, words related to meroplankton, proper usage and pronunciation of the word...
		Any of various organisms that spend part of their life cycle, usually the larval or egg stages...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /meroplankton.html (0 words)

	MEROPLANKTON COMPOSITION OFF SINOP (THE SOUTHERN BLACK SEA) IN1999-2000
		Distribution of the meroplankton in the southern Black Sea was studied at monthly intervals from two stations off Sinop, southern Black Sea, during September 1999 - September 2000.
		The results of this one year qualitative and quantitative monitoring show that meroplankton of the southern Black Sea represents two clearly distinguished ecological groups of larvae; one of them consists of warm water epipelagic coastal origin species and another is formed by cold water batypelagic origin species.
		The seasonality of meroplankton in these stations was analysed with respect to basic environmental parameters.
	www.olympus.net /IAPSO/abstracts/IB-03/IB03-09.htm (257 words)

	meroplankton - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Meroplankton spend only the larval or early stages of their life as part of the plankton and spend their adult lives on the reef.
		Meroplankton definition, words related to meroplankton, proper usage and pronunciation of the word...
		Any of various organisms that spend part of their life cycle, usually the larval or egg stages...
	encarta.msn.com /meroplankton.html (120 words)

	MEROPLANKTON COMPOSITION OFF SINOP (THE SOUTHERN BLACK SEA) IN1999-2000
		Distribution of the meroplankton in the southern Black Sea was studied at monthly intervals from two stations off Sinop, southern Black Sea, during September 1999 - September 2000.
		The results of this one year qualitative and quantitative monitoring show that meroplankton of the southern Black Sea represents two clearly distinguished ecological groups of larvae; one of them consists of warm water epipelagic coastal origin species and another is formed by cold water batypelagic origin species.
		The seasonality of meroplankton in these stations was analysed with respect to basic environmental parameters.
	www.iugg.org /iapso/abstracts/IB-03/IB03-09.htm (0 words)

	MEROPLANKTON OF THE SUBTROPICAL ATLANTIC OCEAN: VITORIA - TRINDADE SEAMOUNT CHAIN.
		MEROPLANKTON OF THE SUBTROPICAL ATLANTIC OCEAN: VITORIA - TRINDADE SEAMOUNT CHAIN.
		The aim of this study is investigate the structure of the meroplanktonic communities associated to the seamounts.
		Meroplankton was represented for gastropods, polychaets, decapods and cirripeds larvae.
	www.olympus.net /IAPSO/abstracts/IB-03/IB03-41.htm (204 words)

	MUSE - Beyond the reef
		Zooplankton includes both holoplankton - animals that spend their entire lives as part of the plankton, as well as meroplankton - those that only spend a larval or reproductive stage as part of the plankton.
		Meroplankton includes the animals that spend only the early stages of their life as part of the plankton, and later move to the reef.
		The differences between the appearance and behaviour of larval and adult stages has led to much confusion in the past when larval forms were often believed to be completely different species than the adults.
	www.austmus.gov.au /muse/jan2003/feature4.htm (748 words)

	VLIZ - Integrated Marine Informations System - IMIS
		The density distribution of meroplanktonic larvae is compared with the density distribution of adults in the benthos, at five coastal stations in the Southern Bight of the North Sea (Abra alba community).
		Meroplankton consisted of polychaete larvae (9 families) and bivalve and echinoderm larvae.
		The highest meroplankton densities are found where the macrobenthos and meiobenthos density values are low.
	www.vliz.be /Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=7114 (247 words)

	e-Prints Soton - Developmental trade-offs in Subantarctic meroplankton communities and the enigma of low decapod ...
		Three main larval developmental modes, characterised by morphogenesis, mode of larval nutrition and site of larval development, were observed in Magellan decapods: (1) Extended, planktotrophic development of planktonic larvae; (2) abbreviated, planktotrophic development of planktonic larvae; and (3) abbreviated, endotrophic (lecithotrophic) development of demersally living larvae.
		The meroplankton community was found to be numerically dominated by decapod crustacean larvae (47%), followed by polychaetes (20%), echinoderms (16%), cirripedes (8%) and molluscs (7%).
		Cluster analyses clearly distinguished deep-water stations (250 to 400 m) south of the Straits of Magellan from shallow-water stations (30 to 100 m) in the Beagle Channel, where meroplankton was dominated by decapod larvae (>90%).
	eprints.soton.ac.uk /38011 (509 words)

	MEROPLANKTON OF THE SUBTROPICAL ATLANTIC OCEAN: VITORIA - TRINDADE SEAMOUNT CHAIN.
		Most major taxa of benthic invertebrates possesses some species with pelagic larvae, planktotrophic larvae feeding on planktonic organisms, lecithotrophic larvae not feeding during the planktonic life.
		The aim of this study is investigate the structure of the meroplanktonic communities associated to the seamounts.
		Meroplankton was represented for gastropods, polychaets, decapods and cirripeds larvae.
	www.iugg.org /iapso/abstracts/IB-03/IB03-41.htm (0 words)

	About Shanks 2
		Observations on the distribution of meroplankton during a downwelling event and associated intrusion of the Chesapeake Bay estuarine plume.
		Johnson, K. and Shanks, A.L. Predation upon meroplankton: Assessing the risk at near-natural prey densities and in the presence of background plankton.
		Shanks, A.L., Brink, L., Hooff, R., Largier, J., and Brubaker, J. Observations on the distribution of meroplankton during a downwelling event and associated intrusion of the Chesapeake Bay estuarine plume.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~ashanks/AboutShanks2.html (0 words)

	Beyond the Reef - Meroplankton
		While living in the plankton, meroplankton either feed on other members of the plankton, or they live off the yolk they have retained from the egg they hatched from.
		Scientists in recent years have discovered that many of these tiny animals in the plankton (in particular larval fish and crustaceans) quickly become very good swimmers capable of incredible feats of speed and endurance.
		Meroplankton includes sea urchins, starfish, sea squirts, most of the sea snails and slugs, crabs, lobsters, octopus, marine worms and most reef fishes.
	www.amonline.net.au /exhibitions/beyond/meroplankton (0 words)

	Mission Creek - Metroplankton
		Meroplankton refers to organisms that live only part of their life in the plankton.
		Usually meroplankton has a complete or incomplete metamorphism.
		The early stages are usually planktonic and then they emerge either as a land or flying critter.
	www.msnucleus.org /watersheds/mission/Meroplankton.html (0 words)

	Antarctica New Zealand
		What we do: We undertake detailed studies of the meroplankton community at a range of latitudes involving daily quantification of the distribution and abundance of common larval forms identified.
		To date little attention has been paid to the distribution and abundance patterns of the meroplankton, hampered in part by the inability to identify these larval “types” to the species-level.
		Sewell, M.A. Examination of the meroplankton community in the south-western Ross Sea, Antarctica, using a collapsible plankton net.
	www.antarcticanz.govt.nz /article/3854.html (0 words)

	Zooplankton
		Meroplankton : spend only part of their life in the pelagic, mostly larval forms of invertebrates and fish.
		The diet of meroplankton is often described as either p planktotrophic (which can include any of the nutritional modes described above) or lecithotrophic.
		The latter group does not feed and relies on the yolk provided the larva.
	www.fiu.edu /~goldberg/coralreefs/Zooplankton.htm (0 words)

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		Composition and variation of zooplankton of the Istanbul Strait were studied to obtain information on the distribution, abundance and biomass of dominant zooplankton species in the both layers of Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea of Istanbul Strait and to determine the exchange of these species between those layers.
		In winter sampling period, the copepod Acartia clausi took part in the first place in abundance and meroplankton of bivalves occupied the second place.
		In the samples collected during spring period, diversity and abundance of different species were higher than other seasonal periods.
	www.doaj.org /doaj?func=abstract&id=186731&recNo=28&toc=1 (0 words)

	Definition of meroplankton - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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	www.merriamwebster.com /dictionary/meroplankton (41 words)

	Dolphin Watch & Nature Tours - Zooplankton
		Holoplankton spend there entire life floating in the open ocean (pelagic zone).
		Meroplankton are the eggs and larvae form of organisms found in the coastal waters.
		These zooplanktons are in transition stage and as they develop, they move on into the benthos or nekton zone.
	www.dolphinwatchnaturetours.com /edres/plankton.zoo.htm (152 words)

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		Meroplankton is a special class of plankton, the larvae of organisms that have a benthic or non-planktonic adult stage.
		Meroplankton are seasonably abundant, and their presence in the plankton is crucial to many aspects of the biology of marine organisms, such as dispersion and biogeography.
		In contrast to the meroplankton, holoplankton are those organisms that spend their entire life cycle, from larval to adult stages, drifting in the currents.
	academic.bowdoin.edu /courses/f01/es219/labs/plankton/cruise.shtml (620 words)

	Meroplankton diversity of the Crimean waters (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The diversity of the meroplankton is one of the most important index of the condition of the Black Sea ecosystem.
		The taxonomic composition and phenology of the pelagic larvae of the benthic invertebrates of the South and East coastal waters have been studied.
		The catalogue of meroplankton of the East Crimea, adjacent Karadag Reservation, is replendished with 13 species.
	www.imbc.gr /biblio_serv/medcst/X0018_004.html (124 words)

	Marine Life: Plankton (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Plankters are also divided into the holoplankton and the meroplankton by their life cycle modes.
		It is said that somewhere around 80 percent of the bottom dwelling animals spend their young (larval) life in the plankton and may be quite small (microscopic).
		Meroplanktonic phytoplankters would include the sexual products of the seaweeds like eggs, sperm, pollen, zygotes, and spores.
	www.biosbcc.net /ocean/marinesci/03ecology/mlplankton.htm (2821 words)

	Subtidal 44
		The holoplankton are permanent members of the plankton community and the shallow nearshore is typically dominated by calanoid and cyclopoid copepods, hyperiid amphipods, ctenophores, medusue and larvaceans.
		The meroplankton are temporary residents of the plankton that eventually recruit to the benthos.
		Thus investigators must be cognizant of the species and life cycle of the zooplankton to be sampled, and coordinate the timing of sample collection with the most abundant planktonic stage.
	ilmbwww.gov.bc.ca /risc/o_docs/coastal/subtidal/subtidal-44.htm (2026 words)

	Plankton - Palaeos (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Within the plankton itself, holoplankton are those organisms that spend their entire life cycle as part of the plankton (e.g.
		By contrast, meroplankton are those organisms that are only planktonic for part of their lives (usually the larval stage), and then graduate to either the nekton or a benthic existence.
		Examples of meroplankton include the larvae of sea urchins, sea stars, crustaceans, marine worms, and most fish.
	www.palaeos.org /Plankton (790 words)

	When I Grow Up... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Meroplankton is any of various organisms that spend part of their life cycle, usually the larval or egg stages, as plankton.
		Plankton is the collection of small or microscopic organisms, including algae and protozoans that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water, especially at or near the surface, and serve as food for fish and other larger organisms.
		Just because a creature looks one way in the beginning of its life does not mean it looks that way as an adult.
	www.livingclassrooms.org /lbo/plankton/index.html (106 words)

	Observations on the distribution of meroplankton during an upwelling event -- Shanks et al. 25 (6): 645 -- Journal of ...
		Observations on the distribution of meroplankton during an upwelling event -- Shanks et al.
		Observations on the distribution of meroplankton during an upwelling event
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	plankt.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/25/6/645 (0 words)

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