Remembering the Gulf: Changes to the marine communities of the Sea of Cortez since the Steinbeck and Ricketts expedition of 1940

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 372-379

  Sagarin, Raphael D ^a   Gilly, William F ^b   Baxter, Charles H ^c   Burnett, Nancy ^c   Christensen, Jon ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stanford University ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOPOD; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHINODERM; GASTROPOD; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DECLINE;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CEPHALOPODA; DOSIDICUS GIGAS; ECHINODERMATA; GASTROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 50949090520     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/070067     Document Type: Review

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