Climate change and dead zones

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1395-1406

  Altieri, Andrew H ^a   Gedan, Keryn B ^b,c  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissolved oxygen; Ecosystem function; Estuaries; Eutrophication; Hypoxia; Ocean acidification; Sea level rise; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ESTUARY; EUTROPHICATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA LEVEL CHANGE; STORM; WIND;

SEA WATER;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ESTUARY; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

ANAEROBIOSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ESTUARIES; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER;

EID: 84924415011     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12754     Document Type: Review

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