Rise and fall of jellyfish in the eastern Bering Sea in relation to climate regime shifts

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 77, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 103-111

  Brodeur, Richard D ^a   Decker, Mary Beth ^b   Ciannelli, Lorenzo ^c   Purcell, Jennifer E ^d   Bond, Nicholas A ^e   Stabeno, Phyllis J ^f   Acuna, Erika ^g   Hunt Jr , George L ^e  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Biophysical conditions; Climate change; Ecosystems; Global warming; Ice; North Pacific Ocean; Scyphomedusae; Walleye pollock; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BIOPHYSICAL CONDITIONS; SCYPHOMEDUSAE; WALLEYE POLLOCK; ZOOPLANKTON;

FISH;

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ICE COVER; JELLYFISH; PREY AVAILABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CHRYSAORA MELANASTER; POLLACHIUS; SCYPHOMEDUSAE; SCYPHOZOA; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 44149118833     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2008.03.017     Document Type: Article

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