Seasonal Variation in Zooplankton Composition at the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series (BATS) Station

该项目是一个大型浮游动物取样计划的一部分，将在马尾藻海的百慕大大西洋时间序列（BATS）站每月进行一次大型浮游动物取样。目前，时间序列巡航中没有浮游动物取样，尽管大型浮游动物食草动物在将初级产品包装和运输出混合层方面很重要。为期三年的每月（或更频繁）取样将为其他有关浮游动物垂直迁移的同期工作提供有关季节分布的宝贵支持数据。它将产生一个关于浮游动物丰度的长期数据集，作为密集的面向过程的研究的背景。通过提供JGOFS采样制度中重要的缺失部分，它将允许每月估计浮游动物放牧、代谢和迁移在调节初级生产向颗粒通量转变中的作用。

This project is for a program of macrozooplankton sampling to be conducted monthly as part of the regular JGOFS sampling at the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series (BATS) station in the Sargasso Sea. At present no zooplankton sampling is included in the Time Series cruises, despite the importance of macrozooplankton grazers in the packaging and transporting of primary production out of the mixed layer. The monthly (or more frequent) samples over a three year period will provide valuable supporting data on seasonal distribution for other concurrent work on vertical migration of zooplankton. It would produce a long term data set on zooplankton abundance as a context for intensive process-oriented studies. By providing a significant missing piece of the JGOFS sampling regime, it will permit monthly estimation of the role of zooplankton grazing, metabolism and migration in regulating the transformation of primary production to particle flux.