Physiological and ecological effects of increasing temperature on fish production in lakes of Arctic Alaska

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1981-1993

  Carey, Michael P ^a   Zimmerman, Christian E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic Coastal Plain; Climate change; Coregonidae; Fish bioenergetics; Lake food webs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900870919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1080     Document Type: Article

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