Zooplankton community structure and dynamics in the Arctic Canada Basin during a period of intense environmental change (2004-2009)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2518-2538

  Hunt, Brian P V ^a   Nelson, R John ^b   Williams, Bill ^c   McLaughlin, Fiona A ^c   Young, Kelly V ^c   Brown, Kristina A ^a   Vagle, Svein ^c   Carmack, Eddy C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Beaufort Sea; climate change; interannual change; zooplankton

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARCTIC; BEAUFORT SEA; CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; INTERANNUAL; MESOSCALE DISTRIBUTION; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; ZOOPLANKTON; ZOOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES;

BIOMASS;

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOMASS; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; SECONDARY PRODUCTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA BASIN;

CALANUS GLACIALIS; CALANUS HYPERBOREUS; COPEPODA; LIMACINA HELICINA; MICROCALANUS PYGMAEUS; OITHONA SIMILIS; PSEUDOCALANUS;

EID: 84900530709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JC009156     Document Type: Article

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