Signs of critical transition in the Everglades wetlands in response to climate and anthropogenic changes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 6296-6300

  Foti, Romano ^a   Del Jesus, Manuel ^a,b   Rinaldo, Andrea ^c,d   Rodriguez Iturbe, Ignacio ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENTAL HYDRAULICS INSTITUTE IH CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HABITAT; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VEGETATION; WETLAND;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FLORIDA; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WETLANDS;

EID: 84876278415     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1302558110     Document Type: Article

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