A robustness metric integrating spatial and temporal information: Application to coral reefs exposed to local and regional disturbances

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 331, Issue , 2007, Pages 101-108

  Price, Andrew R G ^a   Keeling, Matt J ^a   Stewart, Ian N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coral reefs; Global change; Robustness; Spatiotemporal information

Indexed keywords

BASELINE CONDITIONS; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEF; DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GLOBAL CHANGE; SPATIAL DATA; TEMPORAL RECORD;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 33947167716     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps331101     Document Type: Article

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