Summer hot snaps and winter conditions: Modelling white syndrome outbreaks on great barrier reef corals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Heron, Scott F ^a,b   Willis, Bette L ^b   Skirving, William J ^b   Mark Eakin, C ^c   Page, Cathie A ^b   Miller, Ian R ^d  

^a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ^*  (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEF; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE STRESS; WHITE SYNDROME; WINTER; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; AUSTRALIA; COLD; DECISION TREE; HEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; RISK; SEASON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANTHOZOA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; AUSTRALIA; COLD TEMPERATURE; DECISION TREES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HOT TEMPERATURE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK; SEASONS;

EID: 77957887793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012210     Document Type: Article

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