Planktonic foraminifera of the California current reflect 20th-century warming

Science

Volumn 311, Issue 5757, 2006, Pages 63-66

  Field, David B ^a,c   Baumgartner, Timothy R ^b   Charles, Christopher D ^a   Ferreira Bartrina, Vicente ^b   Ohman, Mark D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^c MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOGENICS; OCEAN VARIABILITY; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEMS; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CLIMATE CHANGE; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; WARMING;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FORAMINIFER; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NONHUMAN; OCEAN CURRENT; PELAGIC ZONE; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TROPICS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROTOZOA; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; ZOOPLANKTON;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 30344475219     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1116220     Document Type: Article

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