Combining physiological threshold knowledge to species distribution models is key to improving forecasts of the future niche for macroalgae

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1422-1433

  Martínez, Brezo ^a   Arenas, Francisco ^b   Trilla, Alba ^b   Viejo, Rosa M ^a   Carreño, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Climate change; Marine macroalgae; Physiological thresholds; Predicting; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

BIFURCARIA BIFURCATA; HIMANTHALIA ELONGATA;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BROWN ALGA; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISPERSAL; PORTUGAL; SEAWEED; SPAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHAEOPHYTA; PLANT DISPERSAL; PORTUGAL; SEAWEED; SPAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84924619314     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12655     Document Type: Article

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