Disturbance and the dynamics of coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef (1995-2009)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Osborne, Kate ^a   Dolman, Andrew M ^a,b   Burgess, Scott C ^a,c   Johns, Kerryn A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CORAL; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HURRICANE; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STARFISH; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; AUSTRALIA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

ACANTHASTER PLANCI; ACROPORIDAE; ANTHOZOA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; AUSTRALIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CORAL REEFS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952518607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017516     Document Type: Article

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