The unprecedented 2015/16 Tasman Sea marine heatwave

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Oliver, Eric C J ^a,b   Benthuysen, Jessica A ^c   Bindoff, Nathaniel L ^a,b   Hobday, Alistair J ^d   Holbrook, Neil J ^a,b   Mundy, Craig N ^a   Perkins Kirkpatrick, Sarah E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FUTURE PROSPECT; HEAT WAVE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MOLLUSC; MORTALITY; SHELLFISH; SUBTROPICAL CONVERGENCE; WARMING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL WATERS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EPIDEMIC; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MOLLUSC; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; SEA; SEA MARINE HEATWAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHELLFISH; SUMMER; TASMANIA; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WILD ANIMAL;

EAST AUSTRALIAN CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; TASMAN SEA;

MOLLUSCA;

EID: 85024486925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms16101     Document Type: Article

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