Influence of corallivory, competition, and habitat structure on coral community shifts

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1959-1971

  Lenihan, Hunter S ^a   Holbrook, Sally J ^a   Schmitt, Russell J ^a   Brooks, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acropora retusa; Associational defense; Coral; Corallivory; Demography; Disturbance; French Polynesia; Habitat structure; Moorea lagoons; Pocillopora verrucosa; Recovery; Resilience; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORAL REEF; CORALLIVORY; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; GASTROPOD; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; POPULATION GROWTH; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; GASTROPOD; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEFS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISHES; GASTROPODA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

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

ACROPORA; ACROPORIDAE; ANTHOZOA; GASTROPODA; PISCES; POCILLOPORA; POCILLOPORA VERRUCOSA; PORITES; PORITIDAE; RETUSA; VERMETIDAE;

EID: 80053609777     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0108.1     Document Type: Article

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