Coastal water darkening and implications for mesopelagic regime shifts in Norwegian fjords

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 387, Issue , 2009, Pages 39-49

  Aksnes, Dag L ^a   Dupont, Nicolas ^a   Staby, Arved ^a   Fiksen, Øyvind ^a   Kaartvedt, Stein ^b   Aure, Jan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Coastal ecosystems; Darkening; Freshening; Light attenuation; Regime shift

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WATER; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DARK; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FJORD; FOOD WEB; JELLYFISH; LIGHT ATTENUATION; MESOPELAGIC ZONE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; WATER COLUMN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

PERIPHYLLA PERIPHYLLA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 68649125556     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08120     Document Type: Article

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