Ocean fronts drive marine fishery production and biogeochemical cycling

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1710-1715

  Woodsona, C Brock ^a   Litvinb, Steven Y ^b  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Fronts; Reynolds decomposition; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

ANCHOVY; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; DYNAMICS; FISHERY; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMON; SARDINE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; HYDRODYNAMICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW;

ENGRAULIDAE;

BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84922630371     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1417143112     Document Type: Article

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