California Coastal Upwelling Onset Variability: Cross-Shore and Bottom-Up Propagation in the Planktonic Ecosystem

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Chenillat, Fanny ^a,b   Rivière, Pascal ^a   Capet, Xavier ^c   Franks, Peter J S ^d   Blanke, Bruno ^b  

^a INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^d INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COASTAL WATERS; ECOSYSTEM; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FOOD WEB; GRAZING; HYDRODYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PLANKTON; PREDATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEAWATER UPWELLING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPRING; UNITED STATES; WIND;

CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANKTON; SEAWATER; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84877763464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062281     Document Type: Article

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