Long-term trends in carbon, nutrients and stoichiometry in Norwegian coastal waters: Evidence of a regime shift

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 111, Issue , 2013, Pages 113-124

  Frigstad, Helene ^a,b,c   Andersen, Tom ^d   Hessen, Dag O ^d   Jeansson, Emil ^a,b   Skogen, Morten ^b,e   Naustvoll, Lars Johan ^e   Miles, Martin W ^a,b   Johannessen, Truls ^a,b,c   Bellerby, Richard G J ^a,b,c,f  

^a Uni Research   (Norway)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^f NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON AND NITROGEN; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; NUTRIENT-RICH WATER; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTERS; WATER MASS ANALYSIS;

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROLOGY; NAVIGATION; NITROGEN; STOICHIOMETRY;

NUTRIENTS;

CARBON; CARNIVORE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COASTAL WATER; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; FOOD SUPPLY; HYDROGRAPHY; KELP FOREST; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SESTON; STOICHIOMETRY; TIME SERIES; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GERMAN BIGHT; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84875810298     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2013.01.006     Document Type: Article

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