A fuzzy logic model to predict coral reef development under nutrient and sediment stress

Conservation Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 957-965

  Meesters, Erik H ^a   Bak, Rolf P M ^b,c   Westmacott, Susie ^a   Ridgley, Mark ^d   Dollars, Steve ^d  

^a Resource Analysis   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c Institute for Systematics and Population Biology   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; MODEL; NUTRIENT; REEF FORMATION; SEDIMENTATION;

CURACAO; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 0031718753     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1998.96421.x     Document Type: Article

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