The biological response to the 1977 regime shift in the California Current

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 14-16, 2003, Pages 2567-2582

  McGowan, John A ^a   Bograd, Steven J ^b   Lynn, Ronald J ^c   Miller, Arthur J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; OCEAN CURRENTS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; STRATIFICATION; WARMING; ZOOPLANKTON;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0141677781     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(03)00135-8     Document Type: Article

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