Ocean acidification through the lens of ecological theory

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-15

  Gaylord, Brian ^a   Kroeker, Kristy J ^a   Sunday, Jennifer M ^b   Anderson, Kathryn M ^b   Barry, James P ^c   Brown, Norah E ^b   Connell, Sean D ^d   Dupont, Sam ^e   Fabricius, Katharina E ^f   Hall Spencer, Jason M ^g   Klinger, Terrie ^h   Milazzo, Marco ⁱ   Munday, Philip L ^j   Russell, Bayden D ^d   Sanford, Eric ^a   Schreiber, Sebastian J ^k   Thiyagarajan, Vengatesen ^l   Vaughan, Megan L H ^b   Widdicombe, Steven ^m   Harley, Christopher D G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^e GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^j JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^m PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Anthropogenic climate change; Ecological models; Ecological theories; Elevated carbon dioxide; Environmental threats; Global environmental change; Marine stressors

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AQUATIC COMMUNITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FRACTIONATION; GLOBAL WARMING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEAWATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

SEA WATER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; SEA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER;

EID: 84928896040     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-0802.1     Document Type: Article

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