Author’s Accepted Manuscript The influence of surface low-salinity waters and cold subsurface water masses on picoplankton and ultraplankton distribution in the continental shelf off Rio de Janeiro, SE Brazil G.A.O Moser, N.O Castro, R.A Takanohashi, A.M Fernandes, R.C.G Pollery, D.R Tenenbaum, J Varela-Guerra, J.J Barrera-Alba, A.M Ciotti PII: S0278-4343(16)30092-9 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2016.02.017 Reference: CSR3377 To appear in: Continental Shelf Research Received date: 27 May 2015 Revised date: 23 February 2016 Accepted date: 26 February 2016 Cite this article as: G.A.O Moser, N.O Castro, R.A Takanohashi, A.M Fernandes, R.C.G Pollery, D.R Tenenbaum, J Varela-Guerra, J.J Barrera-Alba and A.M Ciotti, The influence of surface low-salinity waters and cold subsurface water masses on picoplankton and ultraplankton distribution in the continenta shelf off Rio de Janeiro, SE Brazil, Continental Shelf Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2016.02.017 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted fo publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version o the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting galley proof before it is published in its final citable form Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain www.elsevier.com/locate/csr