Shifting ecological baselines and the demise of Acropora cervicornis in the western North Atlantic and Caribbean Province: A Pleistocene perspective

Coral Reefs

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 249-261

  Greenstein, B J ^a   Curran, H A ^b   Pandolfi, J M ^c  

^a Hospital for Special Surgery   (United States)

^b SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acropora cervicornis; Pleistocene fossil coral reef assemblages; Shifting baseline syndrome

Indexed keywords

BASELINE CONDITIONS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORAL REEF; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

ACROPORA CERVICORNIS; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 0031751578     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003380050125     Document Type: Article

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