Impacts of aspergillosis on sea fan coral demography: Modeling a moving target

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 123-139

  Bruno, John F ^a   Ellner, Stephen P ^b   Vu, Ivana ^a   Kim, Kiho ^c   Harvell, C Drew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspergillosis; Aspergillus syndowii; Coral disease; Florida Keys; Gorgonia ventalina; Host pathogen interactions; Infection rate; Integral projection model; Mexico; Population; Recruitment; Sea fan; USA; Yucat n Peninsula

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FUNGUS; GROWTH RATE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION OUTBREAK; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTIVE DISORDER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; FLORIDA KEYS; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES; YUCATAN PENINSULA;

ANTHOZOA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS SYDOWII; GORGONACEA; GORGONIA; GORGONIA VENTALINA;

EID: 79955442935     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1178.1     Document Type: Article

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