Decadal-scale variability in the Kuroshio marine ecosystem in winter

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 12, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 234-244

  Nakata, Kaoru ^a   Hidaka, Kiyotaka ^a  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climatic regime shift; Copepod biomass; ENSO events; Kuroshio

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; ZOOPLANKTON;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

CALANUS; CALANUS SINICUS; COPEPODA;

EID: 0142020909     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.2003.00249.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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