The offshore northeastern Chukchi Sea, Alaska: A complex high-latitude ecosystem

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 67, Issue , 2013, Pages 147-165

  Day, Robert H ^a   Weingartner, Thomas J ^b,g   Hopcroft, Russell R ^b   Aerts, Lisanne A M ^c   Blanchard, Arny L ^b   Gall, Adrian E ^a,b   Gallaway, Benny J ^d   Hannay, David E ^e   Holladay, Brenda A ^b   Mathis, Jeremy T ^b   Norcross, Brenda L ^b   Questel, Jennifer M ^b   Wisdom, Sheyna S ^f  

^a ABR Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c LAMA Ecological   (United States)

^d LGL Ecological Research Associates   (United States)

^e JASCO Applied Sciences   (Canada)

^f Fairweather Technologies LLC   (United States)

^g NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Chukchi Sea; Community; Ecosystem; Hanna shoal; Oceanography

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL VARIATION; BENTHOS; FISH; FOOD WEB; ICE COVER; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; MARINE MAMMAL; OFFSHORE APPLICATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; PINNIPED; SEABIRD; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALASKA; ARCTIC OCEAN; CHUKCHI SEA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; PISCES;

EID: 84885293895     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2013.02.002     Document Type: Article

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