Climate change, human impacts, and the resilience of coral reefs

Science

Volumn 301, Issue 5635, 2003, Pages 929-933

  Hughes, T P ^a   Baird, A H ^a   Bellwood, D R ^a   Card, M ^b   Connolly, S R ^a   Folke, C ^c   Grosberg, R ^d   Hoegh Guldberg, O ^e   Jackson, J B C ^f,g   Kleypas, J ^h   Lough, J M ⁱ   Marshall, P ^j   Nystrom M ^c   Palumbi, S R ^k   Pandolfi, J M ^l   Rosen, B ^m   Roughgarden, J ^k  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^h NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

ⁱ AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^j GREAT BARRIER REEF MARINE PARK AUTHORITY   (Australia)

^k STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^m DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL WARMING; MANAGEMENT;

CORAL REEFS;

REEFS;

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEF; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MANAGEMENT; RESILIENCE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; ALGA; BLEACHING; CLIMATE; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISHING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; REVIEW; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FISHES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMANS;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 0042242564     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1085046     Document Type: Review

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