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Abundance and Biomass of Zooplankton in Muka Head waters
Almin Norizah bt Jamaludin
Supervisor: Prof Dr. Othman Haji Ross
Bachelor of Science (Marine Science)
School of Marine and Environmental Sciences
This study is carried out to compare the abundance and biomass of zooplankton in
Muka Head waters, Penang. Muka Head was located approximately at the north-west
of Penang Island facing the Straits of Malacca. A total of 11 samples was taken during
the sampling. The sample was taken in eleven consecutive months within 3 years. The
sampling was done only at the surface of water using plankton net with mesh size of
140µm. About 15 to 20 minutes of sampling duration was horizontally towed with
flowmeter in every station. The samples obtained were then brought back to conduct
laboratory work. Besides collecting the zooplankton sample, the sea water sample also
were collected to calculate the chlorophyll a. There were 9 main zooplankton was
identified. They are copepod, decapod, naplius, mysid, lucifer, polychaetes,
poecilostomatoids, euterpina and other group. The copepods were dominant with the
highest abundance recorded in each samples.
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