Predictive modeling of coral disease distribution within a reef system

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Williams, Gareth J ^a   Aeby, Greta S ^b   Cowie, Rebecca O M ^a   Davy, Simon K ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CORAL DISEASE; CORAL REEF; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; TURBIDITY; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALINITY; SEDIMENT; STATISTICS; TREMATODE; UNITED STATES;

ANTHOZOA; CHAETODONTIDAE; MONTIPORA; PORITES; SCARIDAE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HAWAII; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALINITY; TREMATODA;

EID: 77949528079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009264     Document Type: Article

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