Predicting impacts of climate-induced range expansion: An experimental framework and a test involving key grazers on temperate rocky shores

Global Change Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1413-1422

  Firth, Louise B ^a   Crowe, Tasman P ^a   Moore, Pippa ^b,c   Thompson, Richard C ^c   Hawkins, Stephen J ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Habitat specific competition; Limpet; Range shift; Rocky intertidal

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GROWTH; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MOLLUSC; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; RANGE EXPANSION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

PATELLA (GASTROPOD); PATELLA DEPRESSA; PATELLA ULYSSIPONENSIS; PATELLA VULGATA; PATELLIDAE;

EID: 65549155299     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01863.x     Document Type: Article

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