Indications of a climate effect on Mediterranean fisheries

Climatic Change

Volumn 122, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 41-54

  Tzanatos, Evangelos ^a   Raitsos, Dionysios E ^b   Triantafyllou, George ^c   Somarakis, Stylianos ^c   Tsonis, Anastasios A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; FISH; FISHERIES; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS;

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION'S; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SPEED OF RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; TEMPERATURE INFLUENCE; TEMPERATURE OSCILLATIONS; TEMPERATURE SHIFT; WATER TEMPERATURES;

LANDING;

CATCH STATISTICS; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; EUROPEAN UNION; FISHERY PRODUCTION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; STOCK ASSESSMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREND ANALYSIS;

CEPHALOPODA; CRUSTACEA;

EID: 84890557421     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0972-4     Document Type: Article

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