Direct Impacts of Climate Change on Freshwater Ecosystems

Climate Change Impacts on Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 38-64

  Nickus, Ulrike ^a   Bishop, Kevin ^b   Erlandsson, Martin ^b   Evans, Chris D ^c   Forsius, Martin ^d   Laudon, Hjalmar ^b   Livingstone, David M ^e   Monteith, Don ^c   Thies, Hansjörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chemical impacts; Chemical oxygen demand (COD); Direct Impacts of Climate Change on Freshwater Ecosystems; General Circulation Models (GCMs); Global circulation models (GCMs); North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO); Physical impacts; Regional Climate Model (RCM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953677694     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444327397.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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