Behavioural impairment in reef fishes caused by ocean acidification at CO2 seeps

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 487-492

  Munday, Philip L ^a   Cheal, Alistair J ^b   Dixson, Danielle L ^c   Rummer, Jodie L ^a   Fabricius, Katharina E ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORAL REEF; FISH; JUVENILE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SEEPAGE;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 84901640034     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2195     Document Type: Article

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