Phase shift from a coral to a corallimorph-dominated reef associated with a shipwreck on Palmyra atoll

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Work, Thierry M ^a   Aeby, Greta S ^b   Maragos, James E ^c  

^a US Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center Honolulu Field Station   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COELENTERATE; CORAL REEF; HABITAT PATCHINESS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION DENSITY; RHODACTIS HOWESII; SHIP; SPECIES INVASION; TISSUE NECROSIS; ACCIDENT; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; PARASITE; UNITED STATES;

ANTHOZOA; CORALLIMORPHARIA; PALMYRA; RHODACTIS HOWESII;

ACCIDENTS; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HAWAII; HUMANS; MARINE BIOLOGY; PARASITES; POPULATION DENSITY; SHIPS;

EID: 52149097571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002989     Document Type: Article

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