Long-term potential ecosystem responses to greenhouse gas-induced thermohaline circulation collapse

Global Change Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 699-709

  Higgins, Paul A T ^a,b   Schneider, Stephen H ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergent property; Global change; IBIS; Nonlinear climate response; Remnant habitat; Species richness; Vegetation climate feedback

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; GREENHOUSE GAS; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 19344369122     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00952.x     Document Type: Article

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