North Atlantic climate and northwestern Mediterranean plankton variability

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1213-1220

  Molinero, Juan Carlos ^a,c   Ibanez, Frédéric ^a   Nival, Paul ^a   Buecher, Emmanuelle ^b   Souissi, Sami ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^c Laboratoire d Océanologie et de Géosciences   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; JELLYFISH; TROPHIC CASCADE; ZOOPLANKTON;

LIGURIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

COPEPODA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 22844440533     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2005.50.4.1213     Document Type: Article

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