Climate change and coral reefs: Trojan horse or false prophecy?

Coral Reefs

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 569-575

  Hoegh Guldberg, O ^a,b  

^a Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bleaching; Cassandra syndrome; Climate change; Corals; Fish; Ocean acidification

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; FISH; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SUSTAINABILITY;

ANTHOZOA; EQUIDAE;

EID: 70349984722     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-009-0508-6     Document Type: Article

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