Human impact on atolls leads to coral loss and community homogenisation: A modeling study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Riegl, Bernhard M ^a   Sheppard, Charles R C ^b   Purkis, Sam J ^a  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATOLL; BLEACHING; CLIMATE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY HOMOGENISATION; CORAL; ECOSYSTEM REGENERATION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EUTROPHICATION; FISHING; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHY; HABITAT; HEAT; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); LAGOON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OCEAN CURRENT; POLLUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES REFUGE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANTHOZOA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84861852358     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036921     Document Type: Article

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