Thirty years after: Dramatic change in the coastal marine ecosystems of Kos Island (Greece), 1981-2013

Mediterranean Marine Science

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 482-497

  Bianchi, C N ^a   Corsini Foka, M ^b   Morri, C ^a   Zenetos, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Alien species; Global change; Human pressure; Mediterranean Sea; Phase shift; Reference conditions; Regime shift; Seawater warming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84913596276     PISSN: 1108393X     EISSN: 17916763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12681/mms.678     Document Type: Article

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