Biodiversity - Marine Food-Web Structure, Stability, and Regime Shifts

Climate Vulnerability: Understanding and Addressing Threats to Essential Resources

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages 203-212

  Blenckner, T ^a   Niiranen, S ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ecosystem processes; Local and global diversity; Provision of services; Species invasion

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; EARTH (PLANET);

ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN DEPOSITION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; ECOSYSTEM PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; LOCAL AND GLOBAL DIVERSITY; PROVISION OF SERVICES; SPECIES INVASIONS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84902216687     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-384703-4.00423-8     Document Type: Chapter

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