Predicting the likely response of data-poor ecosystems to climate change using space-for-time substitution across domains

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3471-3481

  Lester, Rebecca E ^a   Close, Paul G ^b   Barton, Jan L ^a   Pope, Adam J ^a   Brown, Stuart C ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analogy; Climate change response; Ecological modelling; Ergodic; Estuary; Gradient studies

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; VICTORIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ESTUARIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RAIN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VICTORIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84907892031     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12634     Document Type: Article

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