Interdecadal variations of plankton biomass and physical environment in the North Pacific

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 289-299

  Sugimoto, Takashige ^a   Tadokoro, Kazuaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Fisheries Research and Education Agency   (Japan)

Author keywords

Global change; North Pacific; Plankton biomass; Regime shift

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; PLANKTON; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032418670     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.1998.00070.x     Document Type: Article

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