Interannual variability in the Northern California Current food web structure: Changes in energy flow pathways and the role of forage fish, euphausiids, and jellyfish

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 102, Issue , 2012, Pages 19-41

  Ruzicka, James J ^a   Brodeur, Richard D ^b   Emmett, Robert L ^b   Steele, John H ^c   Zamon, Jeannette E ^b   Morgan, Cheryl A ^a   Thomas, Andrew C ^d   Wainwright, Thomas C ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; COASTAL UPWELLING; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENERGY FLOW; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOOD WEBS; FORAGE FISH; INPUT RATE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MESOSCALE; MULTIPLE DATA; PELAGIC FISH; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PRODUCTION LOSS; SCENARIO ANALYSIS; SYSTEM SENSITIVITY; TRANSFER PATHWAY; TRANSIENT SPECIES; TROPHIC GROUP; TROPHIC LEVEL; TROPHIC NETWORK;

ENERGY TRANSFER; FISH;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRUSTACEAN; ENDEMIC SPECIES; ENERGY FLOW; FISH; FOOD WEB; JELLYFISH; MIGRATORY SPECIES; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EUPHAUSIACEA; EUPHAUSIIDAE; PISCES; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 84864097899     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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