Long-term fluctuations (1974-1999) of the salps Thalia democratica and Salpa fusiformis in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea: Relationships with hydroclimatic variability

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1832-1848

  Licandro, Priscilla ^a   Ibañez, Frédéric ^b   Etienne, Michèle ^b  

^a THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PEST OUTBREAK; PLANKTON; POPULATION DECLINE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ALPES-MARITIMES; BAY OF VILLEFRANCHE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR; WESTERN EUROPE;

SALPA; SALPA FUSIFORMIS; SALPIDA; THALIA (UROCHORDATA); THALIA DEMOCRATICA;

EID: 33746867518     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.4.1832     Document Type: Article

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