Food webs and physical-biological coupling on pan-Arctic shelves: Unifying concepts and comprehensive perspectives

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 71, Issue 2-4, 2006, Pages 446-477

  Carmack, Eddy ^a   Wassmann, Paul ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; OCEAN HABITATS; SEA ICE;

CONTINENTAL SHELVES; FOOD WEBS; PHYSICAL BIOLOGICAL COUPLING; SHELF GEOGRAPHY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; FOOD WEB; ICE COVER; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL METHOD;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 33751198690     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2006.10.004     Document Type: Article

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