Equatorial decline of reef corals during the last Pleistocene interglacial

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 52, 2012, Pages 21378-21383

  Kiessling, Wolfgang ^a,c   Simpson, Carl ^c   Beck, Brian ^b,d   Mewis, Heike ^a   Pandolfi, John M ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Paleobiology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORAL REEF; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INTERGLACIAL; MODEL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEFS; GEOGRAPHY; ICE COVER; TIME FACTORS;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84871824701     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1214037110     Document Type: Article

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