Olja Vidjak

TL;DR: The community was predominantly neritic but the open sea waters were important in structuring the mesozooplankton assemblage at all stations during the autumn–winter period, and small omnivorous copepods dominated regardless of the season.

TL;DR: The total tintinnid abundance, the dominant species abundance and the dominance grade increased significantly with increasing trophic state, while the diversity indices decreased, and it is concluded that abundance and dominance may be straight indicators of ecosystem troPHic state.

TL;DR: The most important food items were adults and juveniles of planktonic copepods and decapod larvae, and the maximum values of stomach content were found in the samples collected during afternoon, while the stomachs of fish caught before sunrise were generally empty.

TL;DR: The zooplankton community was analyzed in ten Adriatic ports as part of the port biological baseline surveys carried out within the framework of the BALMAS project and recorded a total of 76 indigenous copepod species and five NIS, among which Parvocalanus crassirostris detected in Šibenik and Rijeka ports and Oithona davisae in Venice port, are new for the AdRIatic.

TL;DR: Zooplankton numerical variability primarily responded to seasonal variation in water temperature and spatial variation in salinity, but spatial distribution of the collected data showed that abundances were also linked to chemical and biological parameters generally used as descriptors of water quality.