Interannual-interdecadal variations in zooplankton biomass, chlorophyll concentration and physical environment in the subarctic pacific and bering sea

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 74-93

  Sugimoto, Takashige ^a   Tadokoro, Kazuaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll concentration; Climate change; Interannual variation; Interdecadal variation; Pink salmon; Subarctic Pacific; Zooplankton biomass

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; PLANKTON; ZOOPLANKTON;

(NORTH); BERING SEA; PACIFIC;

ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA;

EID: 0030738285     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.1997.00031.x     Document Type: Article

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