Scleractinian coral population size structures and growth rates indicate coral resilience on the fringing reefs of North Jamaica

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 67, Issue 4-5, 2009, Pages 189-198

  Crabbe, M J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bleaching; Climate change; Coral growth; Cyclones; Demographics; Discovery Bay; Global warming; Hurricanes; Recruitment; Tropical storms

Indexed keywords

CORAL GROWTH; CYCLONES; DEMOGRAPHICS; DISCOVERY BAY; RECRUITMENT; TROPICAL STORMS;

BLEACHING; CLIMATOLOGY; EMPLOYMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; HURRICANES; POPULATION STATISTICS; REEFS; STORMS;

CLEANING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONY; CORAL; CORAL BLEACHING; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FRINGING REEF; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWTH RATE; POPULATION SIZE; SIZE STRUCTURE; STORM;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; GROWTH RATE; HURRICANE; JAMAICA; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; POPULATION SIZE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CYCLONES; JAMAICA; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DENSITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; DISCOVERY BAY; GREATER ANTILLES; JAMAICA;

ACROPORA; ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 65549106346     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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