SCUBA diving: Patterns of growth and predation in branching stony corals

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 727-742

  Guzner, Barak ^a,b   Novplansky, Ariel ^a   Shalit, Or ^b   Chadwick, Nanette E ^b,c,d  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CORAL; CORAL REEF; DISEASE INCIDENCE; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; GROWTH RATE; INJURY; PREDATION; SCUBA DIVING; SNAIL; SURVIVAL; TOURISM;

EILAT; ISRAEL; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

ACROPORA HEMPRICHII; ANTHOZOA; CORNUS; DRUPELLA CORNUS; GASTROPODA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 77954907722     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: 15536955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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