Interactions among chronic and acute impacts on coral recruits: The importance of size-escape thresholds

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2131-2138

  Doropoulos, Christopher ^a,b   Ward, Selina ^a   Marshell, Alyssa ^a,b   Diaz Pulido, Guillermo ^b,c   Mumby, Peter J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coral; Herbivory; Ocean acidification; Recruitment; Size escape threshold

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; BENTHOS; CALCIFICATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CORAL; DISTURBANCE; GRAZING PRESSURE; HERBIVORY; MORTALITY; PARTIAL PRESSURE; PH; POPULATION GROWTH; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SURVIVORSHIP;

EID: 84868232845     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0495.1     Document Type: Article

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