The contiguous panarctic Riverine Coastal Domain: A unifying concept

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 139, Issue , 2015, Pages 13-23

  Carmack, Eddy ^a   Winsor, Peter ^b   Williams, William ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL; COASTAL DOMAIN; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FUTURE CLIMATE; NORTHERN EURASIA; PERMAFROST THAWING; RUNOFF SOURCES; TERRESTRIAL RUNOFFS;

RUNOFF;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOTA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PERMAFROST; POPULATION MIGRATION; RUNOFF; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; THAWING;

EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84949312936     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2015.07.014     Document Type: Article

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