Effects on zooplankton of a warmer ocean: Recent evidence from the Northeast Pacific

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 223-252

  Mackas, David L ^a   Batten, Sonia ^b   Trudel, Marc ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b The Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^c PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; GLOBAL WARMING; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

INTERANNUAL-TO-DECADAL TIME SCALES; TROPHIC LEVEL RESPONSES; ZOOPLANKTONS;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; FOOD SUPPLY; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STRATIFICATION; TRAJECTORY; WARM WATER; ZOOPLANKTON;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

COPEPODA; NEOCALANUS PLUMCHRUS;

EID: 35348938578     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2007.08.010     Document Type: Article

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