Impacts of climate-change-driven sea level rise on intertidal rocky reef habitats will be variable and site specific

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Thorner, Jaqueline ^a,b   Kumar, Lalit ^a   Smith, Stephen D A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOACCUMULATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEASHORE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CORAL REEFS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; OCEANS AND SEAS;

EID: 84899810607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086130     Document Type: Article

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