Small change, big difference: Sea surface temperature distributions for tropical coral reef ecosystems, 1950-2011

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Lough, J M ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS;

ANTHROPOGENIC STRESS; AVERAGE RATE; CONTROLLING FACTORS; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL DISEASE; CORAL REEF; CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; HOT SPOT; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TIME-PERIODS; TROPICAL CORALS; TROPICAL OCEAN; WARM POOLS;

REEFS;

ACIDIFICATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84866678039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008199     Document Type: Article

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