Keeping pace with climate change: What can we learn from the spread of Lessepsian migrants?

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2161-2172

  Hiddink, J G ^a   Ben Rais Lasram, F ^b   Cantrill, J ^a   Davies, A J ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL AGRONOMIQUE DE TUNISIE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Alien species; Colonisation lag; Dispersal; Extinction debt; Global change; Immigration

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; IMMIGRATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES;

EGYPT; INDIAN OCEAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; SUEZ CANAL;

EID: 84861898654     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02698.x     Document Type: Article

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