Linking long-term, large-scale climatic and environmental variability to patterns of marine invertebrate recruitment: Toward explaining "unexplained" variation

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 400, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 236-249

  Menge, Bruce A ^a   Gouhier, Tarik C ^a   Freidenburg, Tess ^a,b   Lubchenco, Jane ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b California Ocean Science Trust   (United States)

Author keywords

Barnacles; Climate change; Climatic perturbation; Coastal ecosystem; El Ni o; ENSO; La Ni a; Long term time series; Mussels; NPGO; Oregon; PDO; Recruitment; Rocky intertidal; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIVALVE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); TIME SERIES; WAVELET;

OREGON; UNITED STATES;

BALANUS GLANDULA; CHTHAMALUS DALLI; INVERTEBRATA; MYTILUS; THORACICA;

EID: 79955078965     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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