Coral bleaching, reef fish community phase shifts and the resilience of coral reefs

Global Change Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1587-1594

  Bellwood, David R ^a   Hoey, Andrew S ^a   Ackerman, John L ^a,b   Depczynski, Martial ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF RURAL SCIENCES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bleaching; Community composition; Coral reefs; Fishes; Habitat loss; Phase shifts; Resilience

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; FISH; HABITAT LOSS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 33747722056     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01204.x     Document Type: Article

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