A model-based approach to determine the long-term effects of multiple interacting stressors on coral reefs

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2722-2733

  Blackwood, Julie C ^a,c   Hastings, Alan ^a   Mumby, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral reefs; Fishery management; Hurricane impacts; Macroalgae; Model; Reef stressors

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FISH; FISHERY MODELING; FISHERY POLICY; FISHERY REGULATION; FISHING EFFORT; GRAZING; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORE; HURRICANE; MACROALGA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STOCHASTICITY; SUSTAINABILITY;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORAL REEF; DISASTER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; FOOD INDUSTRY; HURRICANE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORAL REEFS; CYCLONIC STORMS; DISASTERS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISHERIES; FISHES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 80053949502     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-2195.1     Document Type: Article

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