Heating up the forest: Open-top chamber warming manipulation of arthropod communities at Harvard and Duke Forests

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 534-540

  Pelini, Shannon L ^a,b   Bowles, Francis P ^c   Ellison, Aaron M ^a   Gotelli, Nicholas J ^b   Sanders, Nathan J ^d   Dunn, Robert R ^e  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropod; Climate change; Formicidae; Long term ecological research; Open top chamber; Warming experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866402142     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00100.x     Document Type: Article

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