Can Caribbean coral populations be modelled at metapopulation scales?

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 180, Issue , 1999, Pages 275-288

  Mumby, P J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Coral; Metapopulation; Model; Population dynamics; Remote sensing; Scale

Indexed keywords

CORAL; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION MODELING;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 0033519401     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps180275     Document Type: Review

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