Global warming-enhanced stratification and mass mortality events in the mediterranean

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 6176-6181

  Coma, Rafel ^a   Ribes, Marta ^b   Serrano, Eduard ^a,b   Jiménez, Eroteida ^a,b   Salat, Jordi ^b   Pascual, Josep ^c  

^a CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c L'Estartit Meteorological Station   (Spain)

Author keywords

Benthic suspension feeders; Climatic anomalies; Energetic constraints; Extreme events; Summer lengthening

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATIFICATION; SUMMER; WATER TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COELENTERATE; ECOSYSTEM; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

INVERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; CNIDARIA; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 65549158680     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805801106     Document Type: Article

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