Winter and spring controls on the summer food web of the coastal West Antarctic Peninsula

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Saba, Grace K ^a   Fraser, William R ^b   Saba, Vincent S ^c   Iannuzzi, Richard A ^d   Coleman, Kaycee E ^a   Doney, Scott C ^e   Ducklow, Hugh W ^d   Martinson, Douglas G ^d   Miles, Travis N ^a   Patterson Fraser, Donna L ^b   Stammerjohn, Sharon E ^f,g   Steinberg, Deborah K ^h   Schofield, Oscar M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Polar Oceans Research Group   (United States)

^c NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^e WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^h VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; CHLOROPHYLL;

BIOMASS; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONTROL SYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FOOD WEB; PHYTOPLANKTON; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC LEVEL; ZOOPLANKTON;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD WEB; NONHUMAN; PENGUIN; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDATOR; SALINITY; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPRING; SUMMER; TROPHIC LEVEL; WIND; WINTER; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; FOOD CHAIN; KRILL; SEASON;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; ANVERS ISLAND; PALMER STATION; WEST ANTARCTICA;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; CHLOROPHYLL; EUPHAUSIACEA; FOOD CHAIN; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASONS; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 84903979337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5318     Document Type: Article

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