Physiological advantages of dwarfing in surviving extinctions in high-CO 2 oceans

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 678-682

  Garilli, Vittorio ^a   Rodolfo Metalpa, Riccardo ^b,c   Scuderi, Danilo ^d   Brusca, Lorenzo ^e   Parrinello, Daniela ^f   Rastrick, Samuel P S ^g   Foggo, Andy ^h   Twitchett, Richard J ⁱ   Hall Spencer, Jason M ^h   Milazzo, Marco ^f  

^a APEMA (A Paleontological Eye on Mediterranean Area) Research and Educational Service   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^c International Atomic Energy Agency Marine Environment Laboratories   (Monaco)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^e SEZIONE DI PALERMO   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^g INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; ENERGY USE; GASTROPOD; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MASS EXTINCTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DECLINE; SEAWATER; SHALLOW WATER; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 84932180068     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2616     Document Type: Article

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