Landscape-scale variation in coral recruitment in Moorea, French Polynesia

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 414, Issue , 2010, Pages 75-89

  Edmunds, Peter J ^a   Leichter, James J ^b   Adjeroud, Mehdi ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

Author keywords

Moorea; Recruitment; Scleractinia; Settlement; Spatial; Temporal

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORAL; LANDSCAPE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEASONAL VARIATION; SEAWATER; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER TEMPERATURE; WAVE ENERGY;

MOOREA; SOCIETY ISLANDS; WINDWARD ISLANDS [SOCIETY ISLANDS];

ACROPORIDAE; ANTHOZOA; POCILLOPORIDAE; PORITIDAE; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 77957731810     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08728     Document Type: Article

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