Novel communities from climate change

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1605, 2012, Pages 2913-2922

  Lurgi, Miguel ^a,b   López, Bernat C ^b   Montoya, José M ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Body size; Climate change; Diet specialism; Ecological networks; Predator prey interaction strength; Range shifts

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIET; DOMINANCE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOOD WEB; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RANGE EXPANSION; SPECIALIZATION;

EID: 84866631994     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0238     Document Type: Review

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