Some like it cold: populations of the tellinid bivalve macoma balthica (L.) suffer in various ways from a warming climate

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 384, Issue , 2009, Pages 135-145

  Beukema, J J ^a   Dekker, R ^a   Jansen, J M ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bivalve population dynamics; Climate change; Migration; Mortality; Recruitment; Wadden Sea; Water temperature; Weight changes

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIVALVE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COASTAL ZONE; GROWING SEASON; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA; WESTERN EUROPE;

BIVALVIA; MACOMA BALTHICA; TELLINIDAE;

EID: 67651113689     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07952     Document Type: Article

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