Options for managing impacts of climate change on a deep-sea community

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 635-639

  Thresher, Ronald E ^a   Guinotte, John M ^b   Matear, Richard J ^a   Hobday, Alistair J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Marine Conservation Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CORAL REEF; DEEP-SEA BENTHOS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; REFUGIUM; STAKEHOLDER;

AUSTRALIA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84932188363     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2611     Document Type: Review

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