Modelling coral reef biodiversity and habitat destruction

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 134, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 299-302

  Stone, Lewi ^a   Eilam, Efrat ^a   Abelson, Avigdor ^a   Ilan, Micha ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Competition; Coral reef; Extinction; Habitat destruction; Oil pollution; Recruitment; Spatial model

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEFS; ECOSYSTEM DISTURBANCE; HABITAT DESTRUCTION; MODELLING;

EID: 0029668913     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps134299     Document Type: Article

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