Biological invasions and climatic warming: Implications for south-eastern Aegean ecosystem functioning

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 777-789

  Pancucci Papadopoulou, Maria Antonietta ^a   Raitsos, Dionysios E ^a   Corsini Foka, Maria ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

alien species; climatic warming; eastern Mediterranean Sea; ecosystem functioning; south eastern Aegean Sea

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; COMPLEXITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HYDRODYNAMICS; INVASIVE SPECIES; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORPHOLOGY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL REGION;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; AEGEAN SEA; DODECANESE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84860828421     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315411000981     Document Type: Article

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