The role of environmental controls in determining sardine and anchovy population cycles in the California Current: Analysis of an end-to-end model

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 138, Issue , 2015, Pages 381-398

  Fiechter, Jerome ^a   Rose, Kenneth A ^b   Curchitser, Enrique N ^c   Hedstrom, Katherine S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; CLIMATOLOGY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEMS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL VARIABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY;

PROCESS CONTROL;

ABUNDANCE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISH; FOOD SELECTION; GROWTH; OCEANIC CURRENT; POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION MODELING;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ENGRAULIDAE;

EID: 84951570019     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2014.11.013     Document Type: Article

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