Intercalibrating SCOR, NORPAC and bongo nets and the consequences for interpreting decadal-scale variation in zooplankton biomass in the Gulf of Alaska

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 126-133

  McKinnell, S M ^a   Mackas, D L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Copepod; Flowmeter; North Pacific; Regime; Standard; Station P

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CALIBRATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; SAMPLER; TEMPORAL VARIATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

GULF OF ALASKA;

COPEPODA; TRAGELAPHUS EURYCERUS;

EID: 0037340186     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.2003.00227.x     Document Type: Article

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