Contingencies and compounded rare perturbations dictate sudden distributional shifts during periods of gradual climate change

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

Volumn 106, Issue 27, 2009, Pages 11172-11176

  Harley, Christopher D G ^a   Paine, Robert T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Intertidal zonation; Mazzaella parksii; Range shift; Sea level; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL;

AIR; ALGAE, RED; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WASHINGTON;

ALGAE; MAZZAELLA PARKSII;

EID: 67650473974     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904946106     Document Type: Article

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