The impact of climate change on coral reef ecosystems

Coral Reefs: An Ecosystem in Transition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 391-403

  Hoegh Guldberg, Ove ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

carbon dioxide; cethane; Climate change; declining calcification; disruption of sensory systems; erosion; green house gases; IPCC; mass coral bleaching; ocean acidification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856971105     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0114-4_22     Document Type: Chapter

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