A reassessment of primary production and environmental change in the Bering Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Brown, Zachary W ^a   Van Dijken, Gert L ^a   Arrigo, Kevin R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FORESTRY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRODUCTIVITY; SATELLITES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

BERING SEA; CASCADING EFFECTS; COMMERCIAL FISHERIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOT SPOT; ICE LOSS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OCEAN COLOR; PHYTOPLANKTON GROWTH; PRIMARY PRODUCERS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SEA ICE EXTENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SUMMER MONTHS; TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; TROPHIC LEVEL;

SEA ICE;

ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWING SEASON; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESOURCE USE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 80052074123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006766     Document Type: Article

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