Global trajectories of the long-term decline of coral reef ecosystems

Science

Volumn 301, Issue 5635, 2003, Pages 955-958

  Pandolfi, John M ^a   Bradbury, Roger H ^b   Sala, Enric ^c   Hughes, Terence P ^d   Bjorndal, Karen A ^e   Cooke, Richard G ^h   McArdle, Deborah ^f   McClenachan, Loren ^c   Newman, Marah J H ^c   Paredes, Gustavo ^c   Warner, Robert R ^g   Jackson, Jeremy B C ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; REEFS;

CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CONSERVATION; CORAL REEF; DEGRADATION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM;

AQUATIC FAUNA; AQUATIC FLORA; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUSTRALIA; BLEACHING; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CULTURE; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 0042743754     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1085706     Document Type: Article

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