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Comparative sampling of the mesozooplankton with 333 and 125 micrometer mesh size nets in the Kaštela Bay

In order to test the adequacy of the 333 micrometer mesh size net used until now in mesozooplankton sampling in the Kaštela Bay, parallel sampling with the 125 micrometer mesh size net was performed in this area. The 125 micrometer net was equally efficient in sampling cladocerans, adult stages of larger copepods, chaetognats, thaliaceans, ostracods and decapod larvae, but more efficient in sampling calanoids copepodites, small copepods (cyclopoids and Oncaea spp.), appendicularians, pteropods and larval stages of bivalves, polychaets, gastropods and echinoderms which constitute the major part of mesozooplankton in this shallow neritic area. Therefore, it should entirely substitute the 333 micrometer mesh size net in mesozooplankton sampling in Kaštela Bay.

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