Zooplankton in the eastern tropical north Pacific: Boundary effects of oxygen minimum zone expansion

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 79, Issue , 2013, Pages 122-140

  Wishner, Karen F ^a   Outram, Dawn M ^a   Seibel, Brad A ^b   Daly, Kendra L ^c   Williams, Rebecca L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological pump; Climate change; Copepod; Diel vertical migration; Eucalanus inermis; Oxygen minimum zone; Zooplankton biomass

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PUMPS; COPEPOD; DIEL VERTICAL MIGRATIONS; EUCALANUS INERMIS; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEAN HABITATS; OXYGEN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; STREAM FLOW;

BIOMASS;

BENTHIC-PELAGIC COUPLING; BIOLOGICAL PUMP; BIOMASS; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE CHANGE; DOME; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HABITAT LOSS; OXYGEN; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOCLINE; VERTICAL MIGRATION; WATER COLUMN; ZONE; ZOOPLANKTON;

COPEPODA; EUCALANUS INERMIS;

EID: 84879817761     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2013.05.012     Document Type: Article

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