Climate change and freshwater fauna extinction risk

Saving a Million Species: Extinction Risk from Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 309-336

  Poff, N LeRoy ^a   Olden, Julian D ^b   Strayer, David L ^c  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

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EID: 84880698552     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.5822/978-1-61091-182-5_17     Document Type: Chapter

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