Red Sea coral reef trajectories over 2 decades suggest increasing community homogenization and decline in coral size

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Riegl, Bernhard M ^a   Bruckner, Andrew W ^b   Rowlands, Gwilym P ^a   Purkis, Sam J ^a   Renaud, Philip ^b  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KHALED BIN SULTAN LIVING OCEANS FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROPORA CLATHRATA; ACROPORA PHARAONIS; ARTICLE; CORAL COMMUNITY; CORAL REEF; CORAL SIZE; DIPLOASTREA HELIOPORA; EGYPT; GEOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PORITES LUTEA; PORITES RUS; RED SEA; SAMPLING; SAUDI ARABIA; SEA; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; FOOD INDUSTRY; INDIAN OCEAN; STARFISH; STATISTICS; TIME; WATER POLLUTION;

ANTHOZOA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEFS; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; FISHERIES; INDIAN OCEAN; STARFISH; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84861702460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038396     Document Type: Article

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