Cetacean populations on the SE Bering Sea shelf during the late 1990s: Implications for decadal changes in ecosystem structure and carbon flow

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 272, Issue , 2004, Pages 281-300

  Tynan, Cynthia T ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bering Sea; Carbon; Cetaceans; Coccolithophore; Ecosystem changes; Whales

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CETACEAN; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD AVAILABILITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

BALAENOPTERA; BALAENOPTERA PHYSALUS; CETACEA; MAMMALIA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; MYSTICETI; ONCORHYNCHUS GORBUSCHA; POLLACHIUS VIRENS; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 3042565851     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps272281     Document Type: Review

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