Coral community dynamics at multiple scales

Coral Reefs

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 13-23

  Pandolfi, John M ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Coral; Ecological dynamics; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CORAL REEF; DISTURBANCE; PLEISTOCENE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 0036927145     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-001-0204-7     Document Type: Article

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