Biological activity in the wake of an island close to a coastal upwelling

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 228-237

  Sandulescu, Mathias ^a   López, Cristóbal ^b   Hernández García, Emilio ^b   Feudel, Ulrike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Island wake; Plankton; Primary production; Upwelling; Vortex dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249083033     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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