Modeling the effects of climate change on eelgrass stability and resilience: Future scenarios and leading indicators of collapse

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 448, Issue , 2012, Pages 289-301

  Carr, Joel A ^a   D'Odorico, Paolo ^a   McGlathery, Karen J ^a   Wiberg, Patricia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bistable dynamics; Climate change; Ecosystem shifts; Leading indicatorsv; Seagrass; Zostera marina

Indexed keywords

BEDLOAD; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT RESTORATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MEADOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEAGRASS; STABILIZATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THRESHOLD; TURBIDITY; WATER COLUMN; WATER TEMPERATURE;

HOG ISLAND BAY; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

SUIDAE; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 84857539861     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09556     Document Type: Article

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