The researchers looked specifically at the average fishing revenue in 106 Alaskan communities for 10 years before and after 1989, a year when the North Pacific Ocean experienced a significant shift in productivity and
abrupt changes in the composition of marine food webs, while at the same time the global price for salmon dropped because of competition from farm - raised fish.
Not exact matches
«Prior to this work, large,
abrupt changes to forest structure and species
composition were needed to induce a
change in water yield we could detect,» said Caldwell.
At any rate, it seems likely to us that some major and
abrupt change in the atmospheric
composition and / or molecular structure is occurring at the tropopause.