Diel vertical migration of the copepod Calanus sinicus before and during formation of the Yellow Sea Cold Bottom Water i

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Diel vertical migration of the copepod Calanus sinicus before and during formation of the Yellow Sea Cold Bottom Water in the Yellow Sea KANG Jung-Hoon1∗ , SEO MinHo1 , KWON Oh Youn1 , KIM Woong-Seo2 1

South Sea Environment Research Division, Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST), 41 Jangmok1-gil, Jangmok-myon, Geoje 656-834, Republic of Korea 2 Deep-sea and Seabed Resources Research Division, KIOST, Ansan P.O. Box 29, Seoul 425-600, Republic of Korea Received 15 June 2012; accepted 24 December 2012 ©The Chinese Society of Oceanography and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

Abstract To understand the effects of the Yellow Sea Cold Bottom Water (YSCBW) on the diel vertical migration (DVM) of the copepod Calanus sinicus, we surveyed vertical distribution of C. sinicus at a fixed station in the Yellow Sea before (spring) and during (summer) formation of the YSCBW. Cold water (