Abstract
Series of six repeated vertical Zooplankton hauls 5 min apart were made on a hourly basis during 7 h at an anchor station in the upper St. Lawrence Estuary, Québec. A hierarchical analysis of variance showed that hour-to-hour variations in numbers of most Zooplankton components were of greater magnitude than those found within 30 min or caused by counting errors. The increase of variance for increasing lengths of the sampling period was investigated using a 175 h time series of Zooplankton samples taken 30 min apart at the same location. The results show that the confidence interval of a single observation at the anchor station increases as the scale of the experiment approaches that of the main advective processes (semidiurnal tidal currents) after which it remains relatively stable. For a given sampling scale, the statistical dispersion of Zooplankton is not permanent but varies in time and space under the effects of tidal advection and mixing. These results show that, in tidal estuaries, advection phenomena are more easily recognizable than turbulence effects.
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