Identifying the interacting roles of stressors in driving the global loss of canopy-forming to mat-forming algae in marine ecosystems

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3300-3312

  Strain, Elisabeth M A ^a,b   Thomson, Russell J ^b   Micheli, Fiorenza ^c   Mancuso, Francesco P ^a   Airoldi, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic stressors; Canopy forming algae; Habitat shifts; Management; Mat forming algae

Indexed keywords

ALGAE;

BIODIVERSITY; BROWN ALGA; ECOSYSTEM; GREEN ALGA; META ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; RED ALGA; SEA;

BIODIVERSITY; CHLOROPHYTA; ECOSYSTEM; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHAEOPHYTA; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 84907904221     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12619     Document Type: Article

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