Faunal shift between two copepod congeners (Temora discaudata and T. turbinata) in the vicinity of two nuclear power plants in Southern East China Sea: spatiotemporal patterns of population trajectories over a decade
Li-Chun Tseng1, Ram Kumar2, Qing-Chao Chen3, Jiang-Shiou Hwang1,*
1. Institute of Marine Biology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, 202, Taiwan.
2. Ecosystem Research Lab, Department of Zoology, Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi), Govindpuri, Kalkaji, New Delhi, 110 019, India
3. South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Science, Guangzhou, China
(Li-Chun Tseng and Ram Kumar contributed equally to this work)
Online Resource-1: Satellite images of sea surface temperatures (SST) (for an example, images were selected from January (a) to December (l) of 2007).
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Online Resource-2: Average abundance (± S. E.) of T. discaudata (a) and T. turbinata (b) in each sampling cruise recorded in the southern margin of the East China Sea in the vicinity of Nuclear Power Plants- I and II of Northern Taiwan.
Online Resource-3: Occurrence frequency (%) of T. discaudata (a) and T. turbinata (b) along transects, off NPP- I, Hwang River, NPP- II and all samples combined during each sampling cruise from September 1998 to April 2009 in southern margin of the East China Sea in the vicinity of Nuclear Power Plants- I and II of Northern Taiwan.
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Online Resource-4: Relative abundance (%) of T. discaudata (a) and T. turbinata (b) along transects off NPP- I, Hwang River, NPP- II and at stations along all transects combined during each sampling cruise. Values shown are average (± S. E.) of all samples collected from September 1998 to April 2009.