Water quality and herbivory interactively drive coral-reef recovery patterns in american samoa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Houk, Peter ^a   Musburger, Craig ^a,b   Wiles, Phil ^c  

^a Pacific Marine Resources Institute   (Northern Mariana Islands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c American Samoa Environmental Protection Agency   (American Samoa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROPORA; AMERICAN SAMOA; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOMASS; CORAL; CORAL REEF; DYNAMICS; FISH BIOMASS; HERBIVORY; HURRICANE; ISOPORA; LEPTASTRES; LOBOPHYLLIA; MERULINE; MONTIPORA; NONHUMAN; PAVONA; PLATYGYRA; POCILLOPORA; PORITES; POROSITY; SEA; SEA URCHIN; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED; WAVE EXPOSURE; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACROPORA; ANTHOZOA; MONTIPORA;

SEA WATER;

AMERICAN SAMOA; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEFS; CYCLONIC STORMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEAWATER;

EID: 78649738536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013913     Document Type: Article

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