Resilience to large-scale disturbance in coral and fish assemblages on the great barrier reef

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1892-1905

  Halford, A ^a,c   Cheal, A J ^a   Ryan, D ^a,b   Williams, D McB ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

^c SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Coral assemblage; Disturbance; Great Barrier Reef; Large scale; Recovery; Reef fish assemblage; Resilience

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORAL; CORAL REEF; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ICHTHYOFAUNA;

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

ACANTHURIDAE; ACROPORA; ANTHOZOA; CHAETODONTIDAE; POMACENTRIDAE; SCARIDAE; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 4444334450     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-4017     Document Type: Article

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