Of mongooses and mitigation: Ecological analogues to geoengineering

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Matthews, H Damon ^a   Turner, Sarah E ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biological control; Climate change; Climate engineering; Ecological intervention

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING;

ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING; BIOLOGICAL CONTROLS; ECOLOGICAL INTERVENTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS; GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

ECOLOGY;

EID: 70749145229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045105     Document Type: Article

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