Diadema antillarum populations in Panama twenty years following mass mortality

Coral Reefs

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 125-127

  Lessios, H A ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Long term data; Mass mortality; Population monitoring; Population recovery; San Blas Archipelago coral reefs

Indexed keywords

CORAL; MASS MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

CENTRAL AMERICA; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANTHOZOA; DIADEMA ANTILLARUM;

EID: 17044403882     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-004-0443-5     Document Type: Article

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