Climate forcing and the Kuroshio/Oyashio ecosystem

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 922-933

  Yatsu, Akihiko ^a   Chiba, Sanae ^b   Yamanaka, Yasuhiro ^c   Ito, Shin Ichi ^d   Shimizu, Yugo ^e   Kaeriyama, Masahide ^c   Watanabe, Yoshioro ^f  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^e FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

chum salmon; climate change; ecosystem reorganization; Japanese common squid; Japanese sardine; Kuroshio; lower trophics; mechanistic conceptual models; Oyashio; phenology; projection scenarios; walleye pollock

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AQUATIC COMMUNITY; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SALMONID; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; ZOOPLANKTON;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; OYASHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84883290383     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fst084     Document Type: Article

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