Substrate size mediates thermal stress in the rocky intertidal

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 576-582

  Gedan, Keryn B ^a,b   Bernhardt, Joanna ^a   Bertness, Mark D ^a   Leslie, Heather M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic factors; Barnacle; Climate change; Heterogeneity; Narragansett Bay; Rhode Island; Semibalanus balanoides; Temperature thermal refuge; USA

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CRUSTACEAN; HETEROGENEITY; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; ORIENTATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REFUGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SLOPE; SUBSTRATE; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BODY TEMPERATURE; ECOSYSTEM; HEAT; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; THORACICA; UNITED STATES; WATER FLOW;

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BODY TEMPERATURE; ECOSYSTEM; HOT TEMPERATURE; RHODE ISLAND; SEAWATER; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; THORACICA; WATER MOVEMENTS;

NARRAGANSETT BAY; NEW ENGLAND; RHODE ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

SEMIBALANUS BALANOIDES; THORACICA;

EID: 79955535513     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0717.1     Document Type: Article

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