Climate extremes drive changes in functional community structure

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1821-1831

  Boucek, Ross E ^a   Rehage, Jennifer S ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate extremes; Cold fronts; Community ecology; Disturbance; Droughts; Estuaries; Functional trait structure

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COLD FRONT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; EXTREME EVENT; FISH; GLOBAL CHANGE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

AMIIDAE; CENTRARCHIDAE; CENTROPOMIDAE; CICHLIDAE; LEPISOSTEUS PLATYRHINCUS; PISCES;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ESTUARY; FISH; PHYSIOLOGY; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ESTUARIES; FISHES; FLORIDA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84900006549     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12574     Document Type: Article

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