Climate change and geothermal ecosystems: Natural laboratories, sentinel systems, and future refugia

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3291-3299

  O'Gorman, Eoin J ^a   Benstead, Jonathan P ^b   Cross, Wyatt F ^c   Friberg, Nikolai ^d   Hood, James M ^c   Johnson, Philip W ^e   Sigurdsson, Bjarni D ^f   Woodward, Guy ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e The University of Alabama   (United States)

^f AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Aquatic; Arctic; Complexity; Global warming; Natural experiment; Spatial and temporal scale; Terrestrial; Whole stream warming

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; THERMAL SPRING;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; HOT SPRINGS;

EID: 84907896042     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12602     Document Type: Article

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