Complexity in climate change manipulation experiments

BioScience

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 763-767

  Kreyling, Juergen ^a   Beier, Claus ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

climate change; experiments; extreme events; temporal variability; warming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884690421     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2013.63.9.12     Document Type: Review

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