The Diversity and Biogeography of Western Indian Ocean Reef-Building Corals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Obura, David ^a  

^a CORDIO East Africa ^*  (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORAL; CORAL REEF; DIVING; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; MALDIVES; MICHAELIS MENTEN KINETICS; MOZAMBIQUE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PUBLICATION; SAMPLING; SEYCHELLES; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SRI LANKA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORAL REEFS; DATA COLLECTION; INDIAN OCEAN; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER MOVEMENTS;

ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 84866535514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045013     Document Type: Article

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