Accelerated warming and emergent trends in fisheries biomass yields of the world's large marine ecosystems

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Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 215-224

  Sherman, Kenneth ^a   Belkin, Igor M ^b   Friedland, Kevin D ^a   O'Reilly, John ^a   Hyde, Kimberly ^a  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING WORLD; FISHERY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MAXIMUM SUSTAINABLE YIELD; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD INDUSTRY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEALTH; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SEA; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; LINEAR MODELS; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 68749115475     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-38.4.215     Document Type: Article

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