Monitoring coral bleaching in the Maldives: Lessons to be learned and new hypotheses;Le suivi du blanchissement des coraux aux Maldives: Leçons à tirer et nouvelles hypothèses

Oceanis

Volumn 29, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 325-354

  Bianchi, Carlo Nike ^a   Pichon, Michael ^b   Morri, Carla ^a   Colantoni, Paolo ^c   Benzoni, Francesca ^b,d   Baldelli, Giuseppe ^c   Sandrini, Massimo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^e Albatros Top Boat   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bleaching; Coral reefs; Emergency spawning; Long term monitoring; Maldives; Phase shift; Recovery; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MORTALITY; POPULATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MALDIVES;

ACROPORA; ACROPORIDAE; AGARICIIDAE; ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; HELIOPORA COERULEA; MILLEPORA; POCILLOPORA; POCILLOPORIDAE; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 33745569030     PISSN: 01820745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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