Diversity partitioning of stony corals across multiple spatial scales around Zanzibar Island, Tanzania

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Zvuloni, Assaf ^a,b   van Woesik, Robert ^c   Loya, Yossi ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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

^c Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEF; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; INDIAN OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; TANZANIA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEFS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; INDIAN OCEAN; POPULATION DENSITY; TANZANIA;

EID: 78649729857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009941     Document Type: Article

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