Thaliacean distribution and abundance in the northern part of the Levantine Sea (Crete and Cyprus) during the eastern Mediterranean climatic transient, and a comparison with the western Mediterranean basin

Table 6 The standing crop (mean ± SD) and relative abundance (% of zooplankton) of thaliaceans in the upper 1,050 m of the water column at site A, SE off Crete, in different years.

Year, month	Ind./m²	%	n	Data referring to
1987, January	44.9 ± 43.0	0.3	4	Weikert and Trinkaus 1990
1993, June	107.7 ± 102.9	0.2	7	Weikert et al. 2001
1998, January	48.1 ± 29.1	0.4	3	Weikert, unpublished
1999, April	53.1 ± 16.2	0.3	4	Koppelmann and Weikert 2007
2001, October/November^a	66.4 ± 40.2	0.4	2	Koppelmann and Weikert 2007

Number of profiles (n). Sampling devices: D-MOC, 1987 single MOC; all nets of 0.333 mesh size. Standing crop differences (Kruskal and Wallis-Test; ^anot included) are not significant at the 0.05 level (3.025 < 5.991 = χ² _3;0.05)

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