Significance of distribution patterns of planktonic copepods in Louisiana coastal waters and relationships to oil drilling and production

Abstract

From the Abstract: “Zooplankton collections were made in OEI [Timbalier Bay, Louisiana] are and in two additional Gulf of Mexico coastal areas to determine distributon patterns of holoplankton (single species copepod poulations, diversity, biomass) and their relationship to long-term oil drilling and production…In comparing the collections at the two oil producig platforms with their respective controls, no significant differences were found between means of copepod single species populations, diversity index values, or total biomass.”