Combined and interactive effects of global climate change and toxicants on populations and communities

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 49-61

  Moe, S Jannicke ^a   De Schamphelaere, Karel ^b   Clements, William H ^c   Sorensen, Mary T ^d   Van den Brink, Paul J ^e   Liess, Matthias ^f  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d Environ   (United States)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Community ecotoxicology; Cost of adaptation; Ecological risk assessment; Population ecotoxicology; Stressor interaction

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATED COSTS; CLIMATIC STRESS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORAL REEF; ECO-TOXICOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; ECOSYSTEM PROCESS; EXTINCTION RISKS; FOOD WEBS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; INTERACTIVE EFFECT; JOINT EFFECT; LIFE HISTORY; POLAR BEARS; POPULATION GROWTH RATES; POPULATION LEVELS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES INTERACTIONS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES TRAITS; STRESSOR INTERACTION; TOXICANT EXPOSURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; MAMMALS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ADAPTATION; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXIC WASTE;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE;

AMPHIBIA; ANTHOZOA; URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 84871286782     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.2045     Document Type: Article

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