A decade of climate change experiments on marine organisms: Procedures, patterns and problems

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1491-1498

  Wernberg, Thomas ^a,b   Smale, Dan A ^a   Thomsen, Mads S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecological experiments; Environmental change; Global warming; Ocean acidification; Weighted evidence approach

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; BENTHOS; BIOPHYSICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; MARINE ECOSYSTEM;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84859500188     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02656.x     Document Type: Review

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