Ecosystem dynamics at a productivity gradient: A study of the lower trophic dynamics around the northern atolls in the Hawaiian Archipelago

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 77, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 217-224

  Polovina, Jeffrey J ^a   Chai, Fei ^b   Howell, Evan A ^a   Kobayashi, Donald R ^a   Shi, Lei ^b   Chao, Yi ^c  

^a PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVITY; BIOMASS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BIOLOGICAL GRADIENT; PRODUCTIVITY GRADIENT; TROPHIC LEVELS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARCHIPELAGO; ATOLL; BIOMASS; BIOME; CIRCULATION MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GYRE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; TIME SERIES; TROPHIC INTERACTION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; HERMES ATOLL; KURE ATOLL; MIDWAY ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 44149093061     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2008.03.011     Document Type: Article

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