The Marine System of the Western Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Ecosystems: An Extreme Environment in a Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 121-159

  Ducklow, Hugh ^a   Clarke, Andrew ^b   Dickhut, Rebecca ^c   Doney, Scott C ^d   Geisz, Heidi ^c   Huang, Kuan ^e   Martinson, Douglas G ^f   Meredith, Michael P ^b   Moeller, Holly V ^d   Montes Hugo, Martin ^g   Schofield, Oscar ^g   Stammerjohn, Sharon E ^h   Steinberg, Debbie ^c   Fraser, William ⁱ  

^a ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^g RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ Polar Oceans Research Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change, ecosystem responses; Climate co variability; Ocean heat and nutrients, UCDW; Physical oceanography; Phytoplankton dynamics; Sea ice cover, annual, interannual; Shelf water masses, and of ACC; The WAP marine system; WAP food webs; WW, in Antarctic polar waters

Indexed keywords

EID: 84985868055     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444347241.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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