Resistance among wild invertebrate populations to recurrent estuarine acidification

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 460-467

  Amaral, Valter ^a,b   Cabral, Henrique N ^a   Bishop, Melanie J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acidification; Australia; Estuaries; Macroinvetebrates; PH; Wild populations

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACCLIMATION; ACIDIFICATION; ADAPTIVE RADIATION; DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOODPLAIN; GROWTH; HABITAT TYPE; INVERTEBRATE; LABORATORY METHOD; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PH; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RUNOFF; SAMPLING; SELECTION; WILD POPULATION;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

BEMBICIUM AURATUM; BIVALVIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; OSTREIDAE; SACCOSTREA GLOMERATA;

EID: 79960252283     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2011.05.024     Document Type: Article

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