Composition and seasonality of zooplankton of North Inlet, South Carolina

Abstract

The zooplankton of the North Inlet estuary near Georgetown, South Carolina, was collected bi-weekly from January 1974 to August 1975 (20 months) at four stations. Zooplankton numbers ranged from 377 to 84,414 m−3 (\(\bar X\)=9257 m−3) and biomass from 640 to 140,169 μg dry weight m−3 (\(\bar X\)=16,178 μg dry weight m−3). The major peak in the density of zooplankton occurred between April and July both years.