Patterns of jellyfish abundance in the North Atlantic

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 616, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-65

  Gibbons, Mark J ^a   Richardson, Anthony J ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ctenophora; Inter annual; Pelagic cnidaria; Plankton; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN HABITATS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PORPHYRINS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

CTENOPHORA; INTER-ANNUAL; PELAGIC CNIDARIA; PLANKTON; SEASONALITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CHLOROPHYLL; JELLYFISH; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEASONALITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; CTENOPHORA (COELENTERATES); HYDROZOA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 57449119709     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-008-9593-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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