Decline of the marine ecosystem caused by a reduction in the Atlantic overturning circulation

Nature

Volumn 434, Issue 7033, 2005, Pages 628-633

  Schmittner, Andreas ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; GLOBAL WARMING; MARINE BIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING; GLACIAL PERIODS; MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; PLANKTONS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OVERTURN;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER TEMPERATURE; ZOOPLANKTON; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; COLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA; WATER FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

NITRATE; SEA WATER;

ALGORITHMS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOMASS; COLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MARINE BIOLOGY; NITRATES; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEAWATER; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 15844403824     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03476     Document Type: Article

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