Response of coral reefs to climate change: Expansion and demise of the southernmost pacific coral reef

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 15, 2010, Pages

  Woodroffe, Colin D ^a   Brooke, Brendan P ^b   Linklater, Michelle ^a   Kennedy, David M ^c   Jones, Brian G ^a   Buchanan, Cameron ^b   Mleczko, Richard ^b   Hua, Quan ^d   Zhao, Jian Xin ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^d AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EXPANSION; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA LEVEL; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; URANIUM;

CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; HOLOCENES; MIDLATITUDES; MULTIBEAM SONAR; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; WATER DEPTH;

REEFS;

BLEACHING; CLIMATE EFFECT; CORAL REEF; GLOBAL WARMING; HOLOCENE; MULTIBEAM SONAR; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

AUSTRALIA; LORD HOWE ISLAND; NEW SOUTH WALES;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 77955482424     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044067     Document Type: Article

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