Assessing the Response of Nematode Communities to Climate Change-Driven Warming: A Microcosm Experiment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Gingold, Ruth ^a,b   Moens, Tom ^b   Rocha Olivares, Axayácatl ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIVORE; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; MICROCOSM; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WARMING; ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; PHYSIOLOGY;

NEMATODA;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; NEMATODA;

EID: 84879141431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066653     Document Type: Article

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