The relationship of long term global temperature change and human fertility

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-28

  Fisch, Harry ^a,b   Andrews, Howard F ^a   Fisch, Karen S ^a   Golden, Robert ^a   Liberson, Gary ^a   Olsson, Carl A ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Coll of Phys/Surgs ^*  (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIRTH RATE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FERTILITY; GLOBAL CHANGE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 0038001492     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9877(03)00061-6     Document Type: Review

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