Climate Change Expands the Spatial Extent and Duration of Preferred Thermal Habitat for Lake Superior Fishes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Cline, Timothy J ^a,b   Bennington, Val ^a   Kitchell, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FISH; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FOOD WEB; FRESHWATER FISH; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; SALVELINUS NAMAYCUSH; SANDER VITREUS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TROUT; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; GEOGRAPHY; LAKES; NORTH AMERICA; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; PISCES; SALVELINUS NAMAYCUSH; SANDER VITREUS; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM;

EID: 84876839792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062279     Document Type: Article

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