Effects of predators and grazers exclusion on early post-settlement coral mortality

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 663, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 259-264

  Penin, Lucie ^a,b   Michonneau, François ^c   Carroll, Andrew ^d   Adjeroud, Mehdi ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

Acropora striata; Moorea, French Polynesia; Post settlement; Predation; Recruits

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CORAL REEF; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAZING; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATION; PREDATOR; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEDIMENT TRAP; SEDIMENTATION; SKELETON;

FRENCH POLYNESIA; MOOREA; SOCIETY ISLANDS; WINDWARD ISLANDS [SOCIETY ISLANDS];

ACROPORA STRIATA; ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 79959811819     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0569-0     Document Type: Article

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