Intertidal mussel microclimate: Predicting the body temperature of a sessile invertebrate

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-74

  Helmuth, Brian S T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Climate change; Heat budget; Intertidal; Microclimate; Mussel; Mytilus; Physical factors; Thermal inertia; Time history

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MICROCLIMATE; MOLLUSC; PREDICTION;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA; MYTILUS;

EID: 0031719109     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1998)068[0051:IMMPTB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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