Effect of climatic change on the harvest of the kelp Macrocystis pyrifera on the Mexican Pacific coast

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 545-556

  Valdez, Margarita Casas ^a   Zaragoza, Elisa Serviere ^b   Belda, Daniel Lluch ^a   Marcos, Roberto ^c   Ramírez, Ruth Aguila ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS DEL NOROESTE   (Mexico)

^c Productos del Pacífico ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWN ALGA; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; CLIMATE CHANGE; HARVESTING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; SEA LEVEL; UPWELLING; WATER TEMPERATURE; WIND VELOCITY;

BAJA CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

ALGAE; MACROCYSTIS; MACROCYSTIS PYRIFERA; PHAEOPHYCEAE;

EID: 1942422704     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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