The utility of body size indices derived from optical plankton counter data for the characterization of marine zooplankton assemblages
This week we celebrate the MSc research of Karla Krupica, who recently completed an MSc with Gary Sprules. This also represents an impressive hat-trick for the Sprules lab, who have had the last three Hot Student Papers!
Karla’s paper appeared in a recent edition of Continental Shelf Research.
In this paper, Karla and colleagues show how simple statistical indices derived from digital size data on marine zooplankton, collected with an automated Optical Plankton Counter, can be used to characterize temporal and spatial patterns in the structure of zooplankton communities on the Scotian Shelf off Nova Scotia. Karla is now a Biologist with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources in Lindsay.
Great job, Karla!