Mediterranean seagrass vulnerable to regional climate warming

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 821-824

  Jordà, Gabriel ^a   Marbà, Núria ^a   Duarte, Carlos M ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GREENHOUSE GAS; MEADOW; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEAGRASS; SEAWATER; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VULNERABILITY; WARMING;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

POSIDONIA OCEANICA;

EID: 84865574288     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1533     Document Type: Article

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