Controls of plankton production by pelagic fish predation and resource availability in the Alboran and Balearic Seas

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 112-113, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-14

  Oguz, Temel ^a,b   Macias, Diego ^c,e   Renault, Lionel ^a   Ruiz, Javier ^c   Tintore, Joaquin ^a,d  

^a SOCIB   (Spain)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS MARINAS DE ANDALUCÍA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^e JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MODEL; BIOMASS ACCUMULATION; DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA; ORGANIC NITROGEN; PLANKTON COMMUNITIES; PLANKTON PRODUCTION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; TEMPERATURE LIMITATION;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; FISH; FORESTRY; HYPERBOLIC FUNCTIONS; NUTRITION; OCEAN HABITATS; PHYTOPLANKTON;

PLANKTON;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD WEB; GRAZING; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PELAGIC FISH; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALBORAN SEA; BALEARIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CYNOSCION;

EID: 84878366178     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2013.03.001     Document Type: Article

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