Evidence for a substantial increase in gelatinous zooplankton in the Bering Sea, with possible links to climate change

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 296-306

  Brodeur, Richard D ^a,e   Mills, Claudia E ^b   Overland, James E ^c   Walters, Gary E ^a   Schumacher, James D ^d  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Two Crow Environmental Consultants   (United States)

^e NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bering Sea; Ecosystem change; Physical biological coupling; Scyphomedusae

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; POPULATION GROWTH; ZOOPLANKTON;

BERING SEA;

EID: 0032737135     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.1999.00115.x     Document Type: Article

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