Effects of differential habitat warming on complex communities

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 8077-8082

  Tunney, Tyler D ^a   McCann, Kevin S ^a   Lester, Nigel P ^b,c   Shuter, Brian J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Habitat coupling; Heterogeneity; Species interactions; Thermoregulation; Trophic structure

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; HABITAT; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDICTION; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WARMING;

HABITAT COUPLING; HETEROGENEITY; SPECIES INTERACTIONS; THERMOREGULATION; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; FRESHWATER BIOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; LAKES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYTOPLANKTON; TEMPERATURE; TROUT;

EID: 84901844205     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319618111     Document Type: Article

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