Relationships between benthic cover, current strength, herbivory, and a fisheries closure in Glovers Reef Atoll, Belize

Coral Reefs

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-19

  McClanahan, T ^a   Karnauskas, M ^b  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Algal phase shifts; Caribbean; Herbivory; Homogenization; Mapping; Oceanic atoll; Water flow; Zonation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ATOLL; BENTHOS; COASTAL LAGOON; DOMINANCE; FISHERY DISCARD; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHING; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GREEN ALGA; HERBIVORY; HOMOGENEITY; MAPPING; OCEANIC CURRENT; PERCIFORM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEAGRASS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TIDAL CYCLE; WATER FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BELIZE [CENTRAL AMERICA]; CARIBBEAN SEA; GLOVERS REEF; MESOAMERICAN BARRIER REEF;

ACANTHURIDAE; ACROPORA; AGARICIA AGARICITES; ALCYONACEA; ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; CHLOROPHYTA; FAVIA FRAGUM; MILLEPORA ALCICORNIS; MONTASTRAEA; PORITES; PORITES ASTREOIDES; PORITES PORITES; RHODOPHYTA;

EID: 79551686374     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-010-0690-6     Document Type: Article

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