Patterns of coral disease across the Hawaiian Archipelago: Relating disease to environment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Aeby, Greta S ^a   Williams, Gareth J ^b,c   Franklin, Erik C ^a   Kenyon, Jean ^d   Cox, Evelyn F ^a,e   Coles, Steve ^f   Work, Thierry M ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c CENTER FOR MARINE BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e University of Hawaii West Oahu   (United States)

^f BISHOP MUSEUM   (United States)

^g U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; CORAL DISEASE; CORAL REEF; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; GENUS; HOST; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); LIFE CYCLE; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PLATYHELMINTH; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE STRESS; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN;

ACROPORA; ANTHOZOA; MONTIPORA; PLATYHELMINTHES; PORITES;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; HAWAII; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 79957832420     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020370     Document Type: Article

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