Food web changes in arctic ecosystems related to climate warming

Global Change Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1381-1386

  Quinlan, Roberto ^a,c   Douglas, Marianne S V ^a   Smol, John P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Canada; Chironomidae; Climate change; Food webs; Paleoecology; Paleolimnology; Ponds

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD WEB; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; POND;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33745135760     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00981.x     Document Type: Article

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