Abundance, biomass and community structure of epipelagic zooplankton in the Canada Basin

Changing environmental conditions such as decreasing sea ice cover impact Arctic zooplankton. In the Canada Basin, zooplankton surveys have seldom been done due to its traditionally thick, year-round ice cover. Here, we describe the zooplankton community of the Canada Basin before the two recent sea ice minima (2007 and 2012). Zooplankton were sampled from the upper 100 m during August and September of the years 2003–2006 using a 150-μm mesh net...