Large bio-geographical shifts in the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean: From the subpolar gyre, via plankton, to blue whiting and pilot whales

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 80, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 149-162

  Hatun H ^a,b   Payne, M R ^c   Beaugrand, G ^d   Reid, P C ^e,f   Sando A B ^b,g   Drange, H ^g,h   Hansen, B ^a   Jacobsen, J A ^a   Bloch, D ⁱ  

^a Faroese Fisheries Laboratory   (Faroe Islands)

^b NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^f THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^h BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

ⁱ Faroese Museum of Natural History   (Faroe Islands)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Fisheries; Long term; North Atlantic Ocean; Plankton; Spatial; Subpolar gyre

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; LONG-TERM; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; PLANKTON; SPATIAL; SUBPOLAR GYRE;

CLIMATOLOGY; FISHERIES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEAN HABITATS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; FAUNISTICS; FOOD CHAIN; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GYRE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANKTON; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER MASS; WHALE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BARENTS SEA; ENGLISH CHANNEL; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAROE ISLANDS; GREENLAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

DELPHINIDAE; MICROMESISTIUS POUTASSOU;

EID: 67349256919     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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