Measuring the relative resilience of subarctic lakes to global change: Redundancies of functions within and across temporal scales

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 572-584

  Angeler, David G ^a   Allen, Craig R ^b   Johnson, Richard K ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic invertebrates; Cross scale resilience; Global change; Panarchy; Time series modelling; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GLACIAL LAKE; GLOBAL CHANGE; INVERTEBRATE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LATITUDE; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TIME SERIES; VULNERABILITY;

SWEDEN;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84878205131     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12092     Document Type: Article

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