Climate change in the southeastern Bering Sea: Impacts on pollock stocks and implications for the oscillating control hypothesis

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 139-156

  Coyle, K O ^a   Eisner, L B ^b   Mueter, F J ^a   Pinchuk, A I ^a   Janout, M A ^b   Cieciel, K D ^b   Farley, E V ^b   Andrews, A G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bering Sea; Climate; Fish; Pollock; Predation; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENERGY FLOW; FOOD WEB; GADOID; LITERATURE REVIEW; POPULATION DECLINE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SALMONID; STOCK ASSESSMENT; ZOOPLANKTON;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CALANUS MARSHALLAE; COPEPODA; EUPHAUSIIDAE; POLLACHIUS; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 79751495316     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2011.00574.x     Document Type: Article

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