Global Change in a Low Diversity Terrestrial Ecosystem: The McMurdo Dry Valleys

Antarctic Ecosystems: An Extreme Environment in a Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 44-62

  Wall, Diana H ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning; Climate, other global changes; Coupling of above belowground; Global changes and biodiversity; Low diversity system; Low diversity terrestrial ecosystem; McMurdo dry valley region; Microscopic life above and belowground; Species extinctions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886046745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444347241.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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