Coral disease dynamics at a subtropical location, Solitary Islands Marine Park, eastern Australia

Coral Reefs

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-45

  Dalton, Steven J ^a   Smith, Stephen D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coral mortality; Coral stress; Scleractinia; Subtropical reefs; White plague; White syndrome

Indexed keywords

CORAL; DISEASE; MORTALITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

ACROPORA; ANTHOZOA; GONIASTREA; POCILLOPORA; PORITES; SCLERACTINIA; STYLOPHORA (CORAL); TURBINARIA (CNIDARIA);

EID: 33644616267     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-005-0039-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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