Long-term declining trend of zooplankton biomass in the Tropical Atlantic

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 632, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 365-370

  Piontkovski, S A ^a   Castellani, C ^b  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; NAO; Time series; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COMBINED EFFECT; FOOD WEBS; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NAO; PHOSPHATE CONCENTRATION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; TROPICAL BELT; TROPICAL OCEAN; TROPICAL SPECIES; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEANOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STREAM FLOW; TIME SERIES;

TROPICS;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOMASS; FOOD WEB; GLOBAL WARMING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PHOSPHATE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOCLINE; TIME SERIES; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 70349997062     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-009-9854-1     Document Type: Article

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