Zooplankton long-term changes in the NW Mediterranean Sea: Decadal periodicity forced by winter hydrographic conditions related to large-scale atmospheric changes?

Journal of Marine Systems

Volumn 87, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 216-226

  García Comas, Carmen ^a,b,c   Stemmann, Lars ^a,b   Ibanez, Frédéric ^a,b   Berline, Léo ^a,b,d   Mazzocchi, Maria Grazia ^c   Gasparini, Stéphane ^a,b   Picheral, Marc ^a,b   Gorsky, Gabriel ^a,b  

^a LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^d CNRS USTV UMR6017   (France)

Author keywords

Climatic changes; Imagery; Ligurian Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Time series; Zooplankton; ZooScan

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGES; IMAGERY; LIGURIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; ZOOPLANKTON; ZOOSCAN;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ECOSYSTEMS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ABUNDANCE; CARRYING CAPACITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRUSTACEAN; DECADAL VARIATION; HYDROGRAPH; JELLYFISH; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PERIODICITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SALINITY; SYNCHRONY; TIME SERIES; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER COLUMN; ZOOPLANKTON;

LIGURIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CHAETOGNATHA; COPEPODA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 79955965138     PISSN: 09247963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2011.04.003     Document Type: Article

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