Coping with commitment: Projected thermal stress on coral reefs under different future scenarios

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Donner, Simon D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HEAT TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYMBIONT; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TEMPERATURE STRESS; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ATMOSPHERE; BIOLOGY; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HEAT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA; TEMPERATURE;

ANTHOZOA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HOT TEMPERATURE; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 66749150979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005712     Document Type: Article

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