Ontogeny influences sensitivity to climate change stressors in an endangered fish

Conservation Physiology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Komoroske, L M ^a   Connon, R E ^a   Lindberg, J ^a   Cheng, B S ^a   Castillo, G ^b   Hasenbein, M ^a,c   Fangue, N A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conservation management; Estuarine fishes; Salinity tolerance; Thermal tolerance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983523374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20511434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/conphys/cou008     Document Type: Article

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