The paradox of pelagic food webs on the Bering-Chukchi continental shelf

• Main Author: Springer, Alan M.
• Other Authors: McRoy, C. P.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1987
• Subjects: Biological oceanography; Anadyr; Anadyr’; Bering Sea; Bering Shelf; Fairbanks; Yukon; Anadyr'; Chukchi; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/9350

Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1987 Prolific primary production and spectacular populations of marine birds and mammals in the northern Bering Sea were for many years considered to be a paradox of an environment that should have had low production, as is typical of shallow cont...