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FIGURE 2. — Patterns of zooplankton coherence in four northeastern U.S. continental shelf subareas — Gulf of Maine, Georges 

 Bank, Southern New England, and the Mid-Atlantic Bight, (a) Seasonal patterns in mean zooplankton standing stock (cc/ 

 l(Hlm') forthe5-yrMARMAP time- series; (b) seasonal patterns of dominance of zooplankters by subarea shown as a percent- 

 age of the samples with a dominant taxon on the 5-yr MARMAP time- series; (c) seasonal pulses in abundance of the three 

 dominant copepod species — Calanus finmarchicus, Pscudocalanus minutus, and ( 'entropages typicus (no./lOO m 3 )— in each 

 of the subareas for the 5-yr time-series. LW = late winter, ESp = early spring, LSp = late spring, E Su = early summer, LSu = 

 late summer, EA = early autumn, LA = late autumn, EW = early winter, in panel b. 



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