Climate change and invasibility of the antarctic benthos

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 38, Issue , 2007, Pages 129-154

  Aronson, Richard B ^a   Thatje, Sven ^b   Clarke, Andrew ^c   Peck, Lloyd S ^c   Blake, Daniel B ^d   Wilga, Cheryl D ^e   Seibel, Brad A ^e  

^a DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Decapoda; Invasive species; Physiology; Polar; Predation

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRAB; CRUSTACEAN; EOCENE; EPIFAUNA; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; INVASIBILITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLAR REGION; PREDATION; SHALLOW WATER; SHARK; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

CHONDRICHTHYES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; OSTEICHTHYES;

EID: 37749024642     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.38.091206.095525     Document Type: Review

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