Long-term increase in mesozooplankton biomass in the Sargasso Sea: Linkage to climate and implications for food web dynamics and biogeochemical cycling

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Steinberg, Deborah K ^a   Lomas, Michael W ^b   Cope, Joseph S ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CARBON; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CARBON FLUXES; CLIMATE FORCINGS; CLIMATE INDEX; DIEL VERTICAL MIGRATIONS; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EXPORT FLUX; FECAL PELLETS; FOOD-WEB DYNAMICS; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MESOZOOPLANKTON; MICROBIAL FOOD WEB; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SIZE FRACTION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; TIME-SCALES; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TOTAL BIOMASS; TROPHIC LEVEL; TROPICAL SPECIES; WATER COLUMNS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; ECOLOGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; MAMMALS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER; SURFACE WATERS; TIME SERIES;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; CARBON FLUX; DIEL MIGRATION; FECAL PELLET; FOOD WEB; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PHOTIC ZONE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES; TROPHIC LEVEL; VERTICAL MIGRATION; WATER COLUMN; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BERMUDA; SARGASSO SEA;

EID: 84855893569     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GB004026     Document Type: Article

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