Ecological effects of regime shifts in the Bering Sea and eastern North Pacific Ocean

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 95-113

  Benson, Ashleen J ^a   Trites, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate; Ecological impacts; North Pacific Ocean; Regimes

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COEXISTENCE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036327120     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-2979.2002.00078.x     Document Type: Article

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