Phytoplankton production and growth regulation in the Subarctic North Atlantic: A comparative study of the Labrador Sea-Labrador/Newfoundland shelves and Barents/Norwegian/Greenland seas and shelves

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 114, Issue , 2013, Pages 26-45

  Glen Harrison, W ^a   Yngve Borsheim K ^b   Li, William K W ^a   Maillet, Gary L ^c   Pepin, Pierre ^c   Sakshaug, Egil ^d   Skogen, Morten D ^b   Yeats, Philip A ^a  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c NORTHWEST ATLANTIC FISHERIES CENTRE   (Canada)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GEOGRAPHIC VARIABILITY; LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS; PHYTOPLANKTON BIOMASS; PHYTOPLANKTON DYNAMICS; PHYTOPLANKTON PRODUCTIONS; PHYTOPLANKTON PRODUCTIVITY; PHYTOPLANKTON SPECIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; ICE; NUTRIENTS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRODUCTIVITY;

ECOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GROWTH RATE; PHYTOPLANKTON; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEAWIFS; WARMING;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); BARENTS SEA; GREENLAND SEA; LABRADOR SEA; NEWFOUNDLAND SHELF; NORWEGIAN SEA; NORWEGIAN SHELF [NORWEGIAN SEA];

EID: 84879251889     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2013.05.003     Document Type: Article

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