Erosion vs. recovery of coral reefs after 1998 El Niño: Chagos reefs, Indian Ocean

Ambio

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 40-48

  Sheppard, Charles R C ^a   Spalding, Mark ^a   Bradshaw, Clare ^a   Wilson, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CORAL REEF; EL NINO; MORTALITY;

INDIAN OCEAN;

ANTHOZOA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; COELENTERATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; INDIAN OCEAN; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; CNIDARIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; INDIAN OCEAN; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0036008943     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-31.1.40     Document Type: Article

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