Decadal trends in a coral community and evidence of changed disturbance regime

Coral Reefs

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-13

  Wakeford, M ^a   Done, T J ^a   Johnson, C R ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chronic disturbance; Climate change; Community structure; Diversity; Resilience

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORAL; CORAL BLEACHING; DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GROWTH RATE; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; LIZARD ISLAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 38649105127     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-007-0284-0     Document Type: Article

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