Climate change and the world's "sacred sea"-lake Baikal, Siberia

BioScience

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 405-417

  Moore, Marianne V ^a   Hampton, Stephanie E ^b   Izmest'Eva, Lyubov R ^c   Silow, Eugene A ^c   Peshkova, Ekaterina V ^c   Pavlov, Boris K ^c  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^c IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic stressors; Climate change; Ice dynamics; Lake Baikal; Synergistic effects

Indexed keywords

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 67649782341     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2009.59.5.8     Document Type: Article

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