Pattern and scale of variability among Northwest Atlantic Shelf plankton communities

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1661-1674

  Pershing, Andrew J ^a,b   Head, Erica H J ^c   Greene, Charles H ^d   Jossi, Jack W ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^d Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

climate variability; continuous plankton recorder; Gulf of Maine; Middle Atlantic Bight; North Atlantic; phytoplankton; Scotian Shelf; zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; CRUSTACEAN; DATA SET; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SALINITY; SPECIES INVENTORY; TIME SERIES; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA; MIDDLE ATLANTIC BIGHT; SCOTIA SHELF;

CALANUS FINMARCHICUS; CENTROPAGES TYPICUS; COPEPODA;

EID: 78149431660     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: 14643774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbq058     Document Type: Article

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