Climate-driven basin-scale decadal oscillations of oceanic phytoplankton

Science

Volumn 326, Issue 5957, 2009, Pages 1253-1256

  Martinez, Elodie ^a,b   Antoine, David ^c   D'Ortenzio, Fabrizio ^c   Gentili, Bernard ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL;

ABUNDANCE; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FIXATION; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DECADAL VARIATION; FOOD WEB; MICROALGA; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; PYCNOCLINE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; OSCILLATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; INDIAN OCEAN; OCEANS AND SEAS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70849106289     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1177012     Document Type: Article

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