Individual Variability in Reproductive Success Determines Winners and Losers under Ocean Acidification: A Case Study with Sea Urchins

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Schlegel, Peter ^a   Havenhand, Jon N ^b   Gillings, Michael R ^a   Williamson, Jane E ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ACIDIFICATION; ALKALINITY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; HELIOCIDARIS ERYTHROGRAMMA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PH; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SALINITY; SEA URCHIN; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VELOCITY;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALASIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; REPRODUCTION; SEA URCHINS; SPERM MOTILITY;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOIDEA; HELIOCIDARIS ERYTHROGRAMMA;

EID: 84871666164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053118     Document Type: Article

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