Greenhouse gas buildup, sardines, submarine eruptions and the possibility of abrupt degradation of intense marine upwellinq ecosystems

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1015-1023

  Bakun, Andrew ^a   Weeks, Scarla J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anaerobic processes; Climate change; Greenhouse gas buildup; Hypoxia; Regime shift; Sardines; Submarine gas eruptions; Trophic bottleneck; Upwelling intensification

Indexed keywords

CLUPEOID; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; GAS SEEPAGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HYPOXIA; TROPHIC STRUCTURE; UPWELLING;

CLUPEIDAE; CLUPEIFORMES;

EID: 7044272798     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00665.x     Document Type: Review

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