Rapid shift in zooplankton community composition on the northeast Pacific shelf during the 1998-1999 El Niño - La Niña event

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 133-144

  Zamon, Jeannette E ^a,b   Welch, David W ^a  

^a PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; EL NINO; LA NINA; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALASKA; CALIFORNIA CURRENT; NORTH AMERICA; OCEANIC REGIONS; OREGON; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CORYCAEUS; CTENOCALANUS; PARACALANUS;

EID: 20644445186     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f04-171     Document Type: Article

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