Biological Oceanography

Fig. 16.18 (a) Time-series of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index estimates for 1950 to 2000. NAO is ...

Fig. 16.19 Regional and annual average CPR abundances of (a) C. finmarchicus and (b) C. helgolandicus plotted ...

Fig. 16.20 Progressive shift in the relative abundance of Calanus finmarchicus and Calanus helgolandicus (C. ...

data region with the strongest inverse relation of Calanus stock to the NAO. The sequence goe ...

cyclic shifts in the opposite direction to those in the northeast Atlantic. As C. helgolandicus moves ...

Fig. 16.22 (a) Location of CalCOFI sampling lines in the southern California (SoCal) region (Point Concepti ...

short-term composition shifts during six years; three of those were El Niño years. However, the abundance o ...

1970s, indicated by the PDO. After the regime shift, the timing of peak spring- community abundance was dela ...

conducive to overall biomass production.Exactly how copepod populations would be affected by the interactions ...

Phenology Effects (^) Phenology is the study of the mechanisms that tune an organism’s life-history timing ...

and they rise to the mixed layer as they develop. Arriving, they may or may not find sufficient food ...

plankton distribution patterns (Chapter 10). El Niño, Spanish for “the boy”, gets its name from ...

(^) Every 3 to 5 years, the balance changes, signaled months in advance by a decrease in the Easter–Dar ...

(Huyer et al. 1987). The second wave of that strong event reached far along the North American coast with ...

conditions at a given latitude will match those usual farther equatorward so eastern tropical Pacific and ...

Guano birds off Ecuador and Peru (guanay cormorant, Peruvian booby, tropical penguins) can suffer ...

dissociation constants favor bicarbonate, both raising the [H+] (lowering pH) and reducing the ...

(^) Much remains to be learned about mineralization in marine animals, but their shell- forming organs typically ...

(crosses and solid lines) of 4-year-old-cod landed at (a) West Greenland, and (b) the Faeroes Islands. (^) (After ...

Chapter 17 Fisheries oceanography Our goal here is to provide an initial look at the mental machi ...