The future of the oceans past

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1558, 2010, Pages 3765-3778

  Jackson, Jeremy B C ^a,b  

^a CENTER FOR MARINE BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Climate change; Extinction; Human impacts; Marine ecosystems; Palaeoceanography

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEF; GREENHOUSE GAS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY;

CARIBBEAN COAST [PANAMA]; ISTHMUS OF PANAMA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 78650378302     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0278     Document Type: Review

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