Detecting range shifts among Australian fishes in response to climate change

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1027-1042

  Booth, David J ^a   Bond, Nick ^b,c   MacReadie, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

catch databases; climate change impacts; distributional patterns; distributional range; geographic limits; habitat loss; ocean acidification; range edge; sea level rise

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; CATCH STATISTICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DATABASE; DETECTION METHOD; DISPERSAL; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FISH; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT LOSS; HOME RANGE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OCEANIC CURRENT; RANGE EXPANSION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; WATER FLOW; WATER TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALIA;

PISCES;

EID: 80053116396     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF10270     Document Type: Review

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