Enabling regional management in a changing climate through Bayesian meta-analysis of a large-scale disturbance

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 412-421

  MacNeil, M Aaron ^a   Graham, Nicholas A J ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coral bleaching; Coral reef ecology; Hierarchical models; Indian; Multi scale; Observational analysis; Ocean; PyMC; reef fish

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; DISTURBANCE; FISH; META-ANALYSIS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

INDIAN OCEAN;

ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

EID: 77954184535     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00515.x     Document Type: Article

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