Global warming triggers the loss of a key Arctic refugium

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1772, 2013, Pages

  Ruhland K M ^a   Paterson, A M ^b   Keller, W ^c   Michelutti, N ^a   Smol, J P ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Diatoms; Palaeolimnology; Subarctic; Threshold response

Indexed keywords

ALGA; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; NATIVE SPECIES; PERMAFROST; REFUGIUM; SEA ICE; SEDIMENT CORE; SURVIVAL;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA; HUDSON BAY LOWLANDS;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 84885196290     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1887     Document Type: Article

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