North Atlantic climate control on plankton variability in the Balearic Sea, western Mediterranean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Fernández de Puelles, M Luz ^a   Molinero, Juan Carlos ^b  

^a Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares   (Spain)

^b UMR CARRTEL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEMS; FLOW OF WATER; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; PHYTOPLANKTON;

MERIDIONAL TRANSPORT; PLANKTONIC COPEPOD;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ABUNDANCE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE EFFECT; HYDROGRAPHY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PLANKTON; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER MASS;

BALEARIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

COPEPODA;

EID: 34547502528     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028354     Document Type: Article

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