Multiscale characterization of spatial relationships among oxycline depth, macrozooplankton, and forage fish off peru using geostatistics, principal coordinates of neighbour matrices (PCNMs), andwavelets

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 740-750

  Grados, Daniel ^a   Fablet, Ronan ^b   Ballón, Michael ^c   Bez, Nicolas ^a   Castillo, Ramiro ^c   Lezama Ochoa, Ainhoa ^d   Bertrand, Arnaud ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b LAB STICC   (France)

^c INSTITUTO DEL MAR DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^d MARINE RESEARCH DIVISION   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; FORAGE; GEOSTATISTICS; HETEROGENEITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MESOSCALE EDDY; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; PELAGIC FISH; PHOTIC ZONE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; UPWELLING; WAVELET; ZOOPLANKTON;

HUMBOLDT CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PERU;

EID: 84858976392     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: 12057533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F2012-017     Document Type: Article

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