Recent changes in phytoplankton communities associated with rapid regional climate change along the western Antarctic Peninsula

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5920, 2009, Pages 1470-1473

  Montes Hugo, Martin ^a   Doney, Scott C ^b   Ducklow, Hugh W ^c   Fraser, William ^d   Martinson, Douglas ^e   Stammerjohn, Sharon E ^f   Schofield, Oscar ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^d Polar Oceans Research Group   (United States)

^e Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; WATER;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CHLOROPHYLL A; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CRUSTACEAN; ICE COVER; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE DATA; SEABIRD; WATER COLUMN;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ICE COVER; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; PENGUIN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SHRIMP; SUMMER; WIND;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; COLD CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EUPHAUSIACEA; GEOGRAPHY; ICE COVER; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SEAWATER; SPHENISCIDAE; TEMPERATURE; WIND;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 62449288630     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1164533     Document Type: Article

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