Windows of change: Temporal scale of analysis is decisive to detect ecosystem responses to climate change

Marine Biology

Volumn 159, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2533-2542

  Adrian, Rita ^a   Gerten, Dieter ^b   Huber, Veronika ^b   Wagner, Carola ^c   Schmidt, Silke R ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM;

BERLIN; GERMANY; MUGGELSEE;

EID: 84868497049     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-012-1938-1     Document Type: Article

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