Factors influencing physical structure and lower trophic levels of the eastern Bering Sea shelf in 2005: Sea ice, tides and winds

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 85, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 180-196

  Stabeno, Phyllis ^a   Napp, Jeffrey ^a   Mordy, Calvin ^b   Whitledge, Terry ^c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection; Bering Sea; Nutrients; Ocean temperature; Stratification; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; BERING SEA; BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; IN-SITU PROCESS; LAYERED SYSTEMS; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL STRUCTURES; SHELF WATERS; SOUTH-TO-NORTH; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STRATIFIED WATERS; TIDAL ENERGY; TROPHIC LEVEL; ZOOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES; ZOOPLANKTON SPECIES;

ADVECTION; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOLOGY; NUTRIENTS; OXYGEN; PORPHYRINS; TIDAL POWER; TIDES; WIND;

SEA ICE;

ABUNDANCE; ADVECTION; BENTHIC INFAUNA; CHLOROPHYLL; CONTINENTAL SHELF; HYDROGRAPHY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MOORING SYSTEM; NUTRIENT; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEA ICE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STRATIFICATION; TIDE; TROPHIC LEVEL; WATER COLUMN; ZOOPLANKTON;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CHAETOGNATHA; COPEPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 77954761798     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2010.02.010     Document Type: Article

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