Interannual and decadal variability in zooplankton communities of the southeast Bering Sea shelf

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 26, 2002, Pages 5991-6008

  Napp, Jeffrey M ^a   Baier, Christine T ^a   Brodeur, Richard D ^b   Coyle, Kenneth O ^c   Shiga, Naonobu ^d   Mier, Kathy ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; MARINE BIOLOGY;

ZOOPLANKTONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOMASS; CLIMATE FORCING; DECADAL VARIATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

BERING SEA;

ACARTIA; CALANUS MARSHALLAE; NEOCALANUS; PSEUDOCALANUS;

EID: 0036437126     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(02)00330-2     Document Type: Article

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