Loss of persistence of the North Atlantic Oscillation and its biological implication

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Dippner, Joachim W ^a   Möller, Caroline ^a   Kröncke, Ingrid ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

AMOEBA model; Benthic macrofauna; Composite analysis; North Atlantic Oscillation; Persistence; Regime shift

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977941522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296701X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2014.00057     Document Type: Article

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