What is the effect of climate change on marine fish biodiversity in an area of low connectivity, the Baltic Sea?

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 637-646

  Hiddink, Jan Geert ^a   Coleby, Chris ^a,b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WORLEYPARSONS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Extinction debt; Fish; Immigration lag; Salinity; Species richness; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COLONIZATION; FISH; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WARMING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); BALTIC SEA; KATTEGAT;

EID: 84860837423     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00696.x     Document Type: Article

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