Living on the edge of two changing worlds: Forecasting the responses of rocky intertidal ecosystems to climate change

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2006, Pages 373-404

  Helmuth, Brian ^a   Mieszkowska, Nova ^a   Moore, Pippa ^b   Hawkins, Stephen J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Ecophysiology; Invertebrate; Marine ecology; Modeling

Indexed keywords

BIOTA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FIELD METHOD; FORECASTING METHOD; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LABORATORY METHOD; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; ROCKY SHORE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33845468331     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.37.091305.110149     Document Type: Review

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