Copepod species diversity and climate variability in the tropical Atlantic Ocean

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 12, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 352-359

  Piontkovski, Sergey A ^a,b   Landry, Michael R ^c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b A O KOVALEVSKY INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS OF RAS   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Copepod species diversity; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; Tropical Atlantic; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

COPEPODA;

EID: 0142020896     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.2003.00250.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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