Ecosystem resilience and threshold response in the galápagos coastal zone

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Seddon, Alistair W R ^a   Froyd, Cynthia A ^a,b   Leng, Melanie J ^c   Milne, Glenn A ^d   Willis, Katherine J ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CALCIUM; CARBON 13; IRON; LITHIUM; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; SODIUM; STRONTIUM; SULFUR; TITANIUM; CARBON;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANOPY; CLIMATE; COASTAL WATERS; DIATOM; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECUADOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GLACIO ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENT MODEL; MANGROVE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL MAT; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PALEOECOLOGY; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SALINITY; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; THRESHOLD ECOLOGICAL RESPONSE; TIDAL INUNDATION; TSUNAMI; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CALIBRATION; GEOGRAPHY; ISOTOPE LABELING; SEA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

CALIBRATION; CARBON ISOTOPES; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; GEOGRAPHY; ISOTOPE LABELING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; SALINITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

EID: 79960696301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022376     Document Type: Article

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