Temporal and spatial variability in coral recruitment on two Indonesian coral reefs: Consistently lower recruitment to a degraded reef

Marine Biology

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 97-105

  Salinas de Leon P ^a   Dryden, C ^b   Smith, D J ^c   Bell, J J ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEASONALITY; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

INDONESIA; SOUTHEAST SULAWESI; WAKATOBI MARINE NATIONAL PARK;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84871926009     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-012-2066-7     Document Type: Article

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