Pelagic community responses to a deep-water front in the California Current Ecosystem: Overview of the A-Front Study

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 739-748

  Landry, Michael R ^a   Ohman, Mark D ^a   Goericke, Ralf ^a   Stukel, Michael R ^b   Barbeau, Katherine A ^a   Bundy, Randelle ^a   Kahru, Mati ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

California Current; fronts; iron; nutrients; phytoplankton; zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; BIOMASS; CARBON FLUX; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DEEP WATER; DIATOM; GROWTH RATE; IRON; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; OCEANIC FRONT; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PELAGIC FISH; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TROPHIC INTERACTION; UPWELLING; ZOOPLANKTON;

CALIFORNIA; CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; POINT CONCEPTION; UNITED STATES;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84864706116     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: 14643774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbs025     Document Type: Review

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