Relationships between North Atlantic salmon, plankton, and hydroclimatic change in the Northeast Atlantic

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1549-1562

  Beaugrand, Grégory ^a   Reid, Philip C ^b,c,d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; North Atlantic; northern hemisphere temperature; plankton; regime shift; salmon; sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CATCH STATISTICS; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWTH RATE; MATURATION; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DECLINE; SALMONID; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPHIC LEVEL; WILD POPULATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

EID: 84867505179     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fss153     Document Type: Article

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