Hydrographic and acoustic evidence for enhanced plankton stocks in a small cyclone in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-61

  Ressler, Patrick H ^a,b   Jochens, Ann E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

27 31 N 87 90 W; ADCP; Biological production; Gulf of Mexico; Mesoscale eddies; Mississippi River; Plankton; Shelf edge dynamics; Sound scattering; USA

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CYCLONE; MESOSCALE EDDY; PLANKTON;

GULF OF MEXICO;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037232847     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4343(02)00149-8     Document Type: Article

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