Coral population structure: The hidden information of colony size-frequency distributions

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 162, Issue , 1998, Pages 301-306

  Bak, Rolf P M ^a   Meesters, Erik H ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Colony size; Coral reef survey; Modular demography; Partial mortality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032510121     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps162301     Document Type: Article

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