Climate-related global changes in the southern Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 15, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 93-111

  Singh, Bhawan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coastal erosion; Coral bleaching; Relative sea level rise; Saline intrusion; Southern Caribbean

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; SEA LEVEL RISE;

CARIBBEAN; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 0030665856     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(97)00006-4     Document Type: Article

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