Coral community structure and risk assessment of high-latitude reefs at Sodwana Bay, South Africa

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3097-3117

  Celliers, Louis ^a   Schleyer, Michael H ^a  

^a OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Coral communities; High latitude; Landscape components; Maputaland; Marginal reefs; Reef management; South Africa

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CORAL; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; FEEDING ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LATITUDE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AFRICA; KWAZULU-NATAL; SODWANA BAY; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ALCYONACEA; ANTHOZOA; EUPHORBIA MILII VAR. SPLENDENS; KOEBERLINIA SPINOSA;

EID: 55149087064     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-007-9271-6     Document Type: Article

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