Instability in a marginal coral reef: The shift from natural variability to a human-dominated seascape

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 154-160

  Lybolt, Matt ^a   Neil, David ^a   Zhao, Jianxin ^a   Feng, Yuexing ^a   Yu, Ke Fu ^a   Pandolfi, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; EPISODIC EVENT; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT QUALITY; HOLOCENE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; PALEOECOLOGY; REFUGE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

AUSTRALIA; MORETON BAY; QUEENSLAND;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 79955403928     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/090176     Document Type: Article

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