Climate change and decadal shifts in the phenology of larval fishes in the California Current ecosystem

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

Volumn 112, Issue 30, 2015, Pages E4065-E4074

  Asch, Rebecca G ^a,b  

^a INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

California Current; Fish larvae; Global change biology; Phenology; Upwelling ecosystem

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPAWNING; SURFACE PROPERTY; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; EL NINO; EMBRYOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; GEOGRAPHY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

PISCES;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOSYSTEM; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FISHES; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84938152528     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1421946112     Document Type: Article

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