Epipelagic nekton of the North Pacific Subarctic and Transition Zones

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 2-4, 1999, Pages 365-397

  Brodeur, Richard ^a   McKinnell, Skip ^b   Nagasawa, Kazuya ^c   Pearcy, William ^d   Radchenko, Vladimir ^e   Takagi, Shogo ^f  

^a NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

^b PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FAR SEAS FISHERIES   (Japan)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Pacific Fisheries Research Center   (Russian Federation)

^f HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FISHERY; FOOD WEB; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PACIFIC OCEAN; TEMPERATURE;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; NEKTON; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032693491     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(99)00013-0     Document Type: Article

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