abstract
Article history:
Received 12 February 2015
Received in revised form 8 April 2015
Accepted 13 April 2015
Keywords:
Coastal water
Community structure
Metagenetics
Plankton net
Zooplankton
Metagenetic analysis is a recently introduced, taxonomically comprehensive method for characterizing zoo-
plankton communities; however, effects of plankton net characteristics (mesh and opening sizes) on metagenet-
ic data, and biodiversity data in particular, have not been fully evaluated.