The ecology of 'Acroporid white syndrome', a coral disease from the southern Great Barrier Reef

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Roff, George ^a   Kvennefors, E Charlotte E ^a   Fine, Maoz ^b,c   Ortiz, Juan ^a   Davy, Joanne E ^a   Hoegh Guldberg, Ove ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROPORA CLATHRATA; ACROPORA CYTHEREA; ACROPORA HYACINTHUS; ACROPORID WHITE SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; CORAL REEF; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; INCIDENCE; MARINE BIOLOGY; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; AUSTRALIA; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; SEA; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; AUSTRALIA; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; INCIDENCE; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 82855172146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026829     Document Type: Article

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