Central and rear-edge populations can be equally vulnerable to warming

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Bennett, Scott ^a,b   Wernberg, Thomas ^a   Joy, Bijo Arackal ^a   De Bettignies, Thibaut ^a   Campbell, Alexandra H ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH; LOCAL ADAPTATION; SEAWEED; SURVIVORSHIP; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; VULNERABILITY; WARMING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MODEL; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; POPULATION MODEL; SEAWEED; SPECIES; WARMING;

EID: 84951304230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10280     Document Type: Article

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