Relationships between temperature, bleaching and white syndrome on the Great Barrier Reef

Coral Reefs

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-12

  Ban, S S ^a   Graham, N A J ^a   Connolly, S R ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coral bleaching; Coral disease; Coral reef ecology; Multiple stressors; Resilience; Synergy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COEXISTENCE; CORAL BLEACHING; DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; SYNERGISM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84874804992     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-012-0944-6     Document Type: Article

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