Extreme climatic event drives range contraction of a habitat-forming species

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1754, 2013, Pages

  Smale, Dan A ^a,b   Wernberg, Thomas ^b,c  

^a THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Climate change; Macroalgae; Marine heat wave; Range shifts; Species distributions

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL WARMING; MACROALGA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; RANGE SIZE; SEAWATER; SEAWEED;

AUSTRALIA;

SCYTOTHALIA DORYCARPA;

EID: 84878365333     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2829     Document Type: Article

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