Applying the concept of the ecological niche and a macroecological approach to understand how climate influences zooplankton: Advantages, assumptions, limitations and requirements

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 111, Issue , 2013, Pages 75-90

  Beaugrand, Gregory ^a,b   Mackas, Dave ^c   Goberville, Eric ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALANUS FINMARCHICUS; ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; MARINE BIODIVERSITY; MATHEMATICAL TOOLS; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; MARINE BIOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ABUNDANCE; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DETECTION METHOD; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MACROECOLOGY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MONITORING; NICHE; PHENOLOGY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

CALANUS FINMARCHICUS; COPEPODA;

EID: 84875814396     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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