Many Atolls May be Uninhabitable Within Decades Due to Climate Change

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Storlazzi, Curt D ^a   Elias, Edwin P L ^b   Berkowitz, Paul ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ISLANDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84942342399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep14546     Document Type: Article

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