Sensitivity of copepod populations to bottom-up and top-down forcing: A modeling study in the Gulf of Maine region

Journal of Plankton Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 66-79

  Ji, Rubao ^a   Stegert, Christoph ^a   Davis, Cabell S ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Centropages; Copepods; Modeling; Plankton; Pseudocalanus; Top down

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CLIMATE EFFECT; CRUSTACEAN; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; SEASONALITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MAINE;

CENTROPAGES; CENTROPAGES TYPICUS; COPEPODA; PSEUDOCALANUS;

EID: 84871973335     PISSN: 01427873     EISSN: 14643774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbs070     Document Type: Article

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