Projected climate change in Australian marine and freshwater environments

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1000-1014

  Hobday, Alistair J ^a   Lough, Janice M ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

climate change impacts; freshwater fishes; future climate scenarios; global climate model; marine fishes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOWNSCALING; FISH; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; STREAMFLOW; WATER STORAGE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALIA;

PISCES;

EID: 80053098258     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF10302     Document Type: Article

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