A new generation of climate-change experiments: Events, not trends

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 365-374

  Jentsch, Anke ^a,b   Kreyling, Jürgen ^a,b   Beierkuhnlein, Carl ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXTREME EVENT; LIFE CYCLE; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 34548506712     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2007)5[365:ANGOCE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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