A Shift in the Biogenic Silica of Sediment in the Larsen B Continental Shelf, Off the Eastern Antarctic Peninsula, Resulting from Climate Change

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sañé, Elisabet ^a   Isla, Enrique ^a   Bárcena, María Ángeles ^b   DeMaster, David J ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ALGAL BLOOM; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DIATOM; EASTERN ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIATOMS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; ICE COVER; LEAD; OCEANS AND SEAS; SILICON DIOXIDE; TEMPERATURE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84871744198     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052632     Document Type: Article

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