Pressures on the marine environment and the changing climate of ocean biogeochemistry

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1980, 2012, Pages 5613-5635

  Rees, Andrew P ^a  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acidification; Climate; Deoxygenation; Eutrophication; Hypoxia; Ocean

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; EUTROPHICATION; OXYGEN;

ATMOSPHERIC CO; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CHANGING CLIMATE; CLIMATE; COASTAL WATERS; DEOXYGENATIONS; GLOBAL SCALE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN POPULATION; HYPOXIA; INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SCIENCE; OCEAN; OCEAN BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; OXYGEN CONTENT; PRE-INDUSTRIAL;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; OXYGEN; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; METABOLISM; PH; SEA; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXYGEN; SEAWATER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84870014479     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0399     Document Type: Conference Paper

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