Tissue injury predicts colony decline in reef-building corals

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 242, Issue , 2002, Pages 131-141

  Cumming, R L ^a  

^a NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acropora; Demographic fate; Growth form; Indicator; Injury; Loglinear modeling; Partial mortality; Pocilloporid; Predictor; Reef building coral; Size based population model

Indexed keywords

CORAL; INJURY; MONITORING; POPULATION DECLINE;

ACROPORA; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 0037175208     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps242131     Document Type: Article

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