Climate change and the control of energy flow in the southeastern Bering Sea

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 1-2 SPEC ISS., 2002, Pages 5-22

  Hunt Jr , George L ^a   Stabeno, Phyllis J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENERGY TRANSFER;

ENERGY FLOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY BALANCE; FISH; PLANKTON; SEA ICE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

(SOUTHEAST); BERING SEA;

COPEPODA; PISCES; POLLACHIUS VIRENS; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 0036034168     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(02)00067-8     Document Type: Review

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