Associational refuges among corals mediate impacts of a crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster planci outbreak

Coral Reefs

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 827-837

  Kayal, Mohsen ^a,b   Lenihan, Hunter S ^c   Pau, Cédric ^a,b   Penin, Lucie ^a,b,d   Adjeroud, Mehdi ^b,e  

^a Centre de Biologie et d Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne   (French Polynesia)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

Community regulation; Habitat complexity; Indirect positive interaction; Mortality; Predation; Resilience

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORAL REEF; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECHINODERM; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD METHOD; HABITAT MOSAIC; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION OUTBREAK; PREDATION; REFUGE; SURVIVAL;

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

ACANTHASTER; ACANTHASTER PLANCI; ACROPORA; ANTHOZOA; ASTEROIDEA; POCILLOPORA; PORITES;

EID: 79961126811     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-011-0763-1     Document Type: Article

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