The effect of multiple stressors on the Florida Keys coral reef ecosystem: A landscape hypothesis and a physiological test

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 3 II, 1999, Pages 941-949

  Porter, James W ^a   Lewis, Sarah K ^a   Porter, Karen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

FLORIDA KEYS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032909650     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1999.44.3_part_2.0941     Document Type: Article

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