A trait-based approach to assess climate change sensitivity of freshwater invertebrates across Swedish ecoregions

Current Zoology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 221-232

  Sandin, Leonard ^a,b   Schmidt Kloiber, Astrid ^c   Svenning, Jens Christian ^a,d   Jeppesen, Erik ^a,d   Friberg, Nikolai ^e  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d Sino Danish Center for Education and Research   (China)

^e NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecoregions; Freshwater; Indicators; Macroinvertebrates; Traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899129953     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/60.2.221     Document Type: Article

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