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SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE RUSSIAN-AMERICAN
LONG-TERM CENSUS OF THE ARCTIC
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INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE. Russian-American Long-term
Census of the Arctic: RUSALCA
By K. Crane and A. Ostrovskiy
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The Climate of the Pacific Arctic During the First RUSALCA Decade
2004–2013
By K.R. Wood, J. Wang, S.A. Salo, and P.J. Stabeno
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Assessing Ocean Acidification Variability in the Pacific-Arctic Region as
Part of the Russian-American Long-term Census of the Arctic
By N.R. Bates
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A Synthesis of Year-Round Interdisciplinary Mooring Measurements in
the Bering Strait (1990–2014) and the RUSALCA Years (2004–2011)
By R.A. Woodgate, K.M. Stafford, and F.G. Prahl
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The Relationship Between Patterns of Benthic Fauna and Zooplankton
in the Chukchi Sea and Physical Forcing
By M.N. Pisareva, R.S. Pickart, K. Iken, E.A. Ershova, J.M. Grebmeier,
L.W. Cooper, B.A. Bluhm, C. Nobre, R.R. Hopcroft, H. Hu, J. Wang,
C.J. Ashjian, K.N. Kosobokova, and T.E. Whitledge
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Abundance and Production Rates of Heterotrophic
Bacterioplankton in the Context of Sediment and Water Column
Processes in the Chukchi Sea
By L.W. Cooper, A.S. Savvichev, and J.M. Grebmeier
100 Long-Term Changes in Summer Zooplankton Communities of the
Western Chukchi Sea, 1945–2012
By E.A. Ershova, R.R. Hopcroft, K.N. Kosobokova, K. Matsuno, R.J. Nelson,
A. Yamaguchi, and L.B. Eisner
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