Intra-regional comparison of productivity, carbon flux and ecosystem composition within the northern Barents Sea

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 90, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 33-46

  Reigstad, Marit ^a   Carroll, JoLynn ^b   Slagstad, Dag ^c   Ellingsen, Ingrid ^c   Wassmann, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC WATER; BARENTS SEA; BENTHIC BIOMASS; CARBON BUDGETS; CARBON EXPORT; CARBON FLOW; CARBON FLUXES; CARBON TURNOVER; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; COUPLED MODELS; ECOLOGICAL GROUPS; ECOLOGICAL SCENARIOS; FIELD INVESTIGATION; FOOD WEBS; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION; HETEROTROPHS; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERDISCIPLINARY FIELDS; MODEL RESULTS; NORTHERN BARENTS SEA; PLANKTONIC ORGANISMS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPITSBERGEN; SUB-REGIONS; TIME-SCALES; TROPHIC LEVEL; VERTICAL FLUXES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; MOORING; USER INTERFACES;

PRODUCTIVITY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; AUTOTROPHY; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; FOOD WEB; GRAZING; HETEROTROPHY; ICE COVER; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

EID: 79956200224     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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