Seasonal development of mixed layer depths, nutrients, chlorophyll and Calanus finmarchicus in the Norwegian Sea - A basin-scale habitat comparison

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 103, Issue , 2012, Pages 58-79

  Bagøien, Espen ^a   Melle, Webjørn ^a   Kaartvedt, Stein ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC WATERS; ATLANTIC WATER; CALANUS; CALANUS FINMARCHICUS; COASTAL WATERS; COPEPODITES; HABITAT COMPARISON; MIXED LAYER DEPTHS; NUTRIENT CONSUMPTION; PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOM; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SECOND GENERATION; UPPER LAYER; WATER MASS; WINTER MIXED LAYER DEPTH;

BLOOMS (METAL); CHLOROPHYLL; MOORING; NUTRIENTS;

PHYTOPLANKTON;

ALGAL BLOOM; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; COASTAL WATER; CRUSTACEAN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MIXED LAYER; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; NUTRIENT USE; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASONALITY; STRATIFICATION; WATER MASS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA;

ALGAE; CALANUS; CALANUS FINMARCHICUS;

EID: 84865567577     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2012.04.014     Document Type: Article

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