Increasing variance in North Pacific climate relates to unprecedented ecosystem variability off California

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1662-1675

  Sydeman, William J ^a   Santora, Jarrod A ^a   Thompson, Sarah Ann ^a   Marinovic, Baldo ^b   Lorenzo, Emanuele Di ^c  

^a FARALLON INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central Pacific warming; Climate change; Ecological importance; Euphausiids; Forage fish; Non stationarity; North Pacific Gyre Oscillation; Remote forcing; Salmon; Seabirds

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; SALMONID; SEABIRD; UPWELLING; WARMING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); UNITED STATES;

EUPHAUSIACEA; EUPHAUSIIDAE; THYSANOESSA SPINIFERA;

EID: 84877082020     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12165     Document Type: Article

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