On the sudden disappearance of Egeria densa from a Ramsar wetland site of Southern Chile: A climatic event trigger model

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 220, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1752-1763

  Marín, Víctor H ^a   Tironi, Antonio ^a   Delgado, Luisa E ^a   Contreras, Manuel ^b   Novoa, Fernando ^b   Torres Gómez, Marcela ^a   Garreaud, René ^c   Vila, Irma ^a   Serey, Italo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b CENTRO DE ECOLOGÍA APLICADA LTDA   (Chile)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Climate; Egeria densa; Regime shift; Trigger model; Wetland

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY; WETLANDS;

CLIMATE; CLIMATIC ANOMALIES; EGERIA DENSA; HIGH PRESSURE CELLS; LOWER TEMPERATURES; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; REGIME SHIFT; STELLA RESEARCHES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AQUATIC PLANT; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAKE; MACROPHYTE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SHALLOW WATER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WETLAND;

CARLOS ANWANDTER SANCTUARY; CHILE; LOS RIOS [CHILE]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EGERIA DENSA;

EID: 66249102632     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.04.023     Document Type: Article

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