The expanding scale of species turnover events on coral reefs in Belize

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 233-249

  Aronson, Richard B ^a,b   Macintyre, Ian G ^c   Precht, William F ^d   Murdoch, Thaddeus J T ^a,b   Wapnick, Cheryl M ^a  

^a DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d PBS and J   (United States)

Author keywords

Acropora; Agaricia; Belize; Caribbean; Coral bleaching; Coral disease; Coral reef; Holocene; Paleoecology; Patch dynamics; Species turnover; White band disease

Indexed keywords

CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; DOMINANCE; HOLOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PATCH DYNAMICS; TURNOVER;

BELIZE;

ACROPORA; ACROPORA CERVICORNIS; AGARICIA; AGARICIA AGARICITES; AGARICIA TENUIFOLIA; ANTHOZOA; LACTUCA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 0036590984     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(2002)072[0233:TESOST]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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