Historic decline in primary productivity in western Gulf of Alaska and eastern Bering Sea: Isotopic analysis of northern fur seal teeth

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 332, Issue , 2007, Pages 211-224

  Newsome, S D ^a   Etnier, M A ^b   Kurle, C M ^c   Waldbauer, J R ^d   Chamberlain, C P ^e   Koch, P L ^c  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bering Sea; Callorhinus ursinus; North Pacific Ocean; Northern fur seals; Primary productivity; Stable isotopes; Suess effect; Teeth annuli

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON CYCLE; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PINNIPED; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOOTH;

ALASKA; BERING SEA; GULF OF ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIBILOF ISLANDS; SAINT PAUL ISLAND [PRIBILOF ISLANDS]; UNITED STATES;

CALLORHINUS; CALLORHINUS URSINUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34047139823     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps332211     Document Type: Article

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