Gelatinous zooplankton biomass in the global oceans: Geographic variation and environmental drivers

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 701-714

  Lucas, Cathy H ^a   Jones, Daniel O B ^a   Hollyhead, Catherine J ^a   Condon, Robert H ^b   Duarte, Carlos M ^c,d,e   Graham, William M ^f   Robinson, Kelly L ^f   Pitt, Kylie A ^g   Schildhauer, Mark ^h   Regetz, Jim ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^g GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cnidaria; Ctenophora; Environmental drivers; Geographic trends; Global ocean; JeDI; Jellyfish blooms; Macroecology; Thaliacea

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOMASS; BIOMETRY; DATABASE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEL; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NICHE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TREND ANALYSIS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

CHORDATA; CNIDARIA; SCYPHOZOA; THALIACEA;

EID: 84902085671     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12169     Document Type: Article

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