Seasonal sea ice cover as principal driver of spatial and temporal variation in depth extension and annual production of kelp in Greenland

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2981-2994

  Krause Jensen, Dorte ^a   Marbà, Núria ^b   Olesen, Birgit ^a   Sejr, Mikael K ^a   Christensen, Peter Bondo ^a   Rodrigues, João ^c   Renaud, Paul E ^d   Balsby, Thorsten J S ^a   Rysgaard, Søren ^a,e,f  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climate change; Depth limit; Kelp; Production; Sea ice cover

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BROWN ALGA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; ICE COVER; KELP FOREST; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SEA ICE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

LAMINARIALES; SACCHARINA; SACCHARINA LATISSIMA;

EID: 84865861894     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02765.x     Document Type: Article

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