Species-Specific Responses of Corals to Bleaching Events on Anthropogenically Turbid Reefs on Okinawa Island, Japan, over a 15-year Period (1995-2009)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Hongo, Chuki ^a   Yamano, Hiroya ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROPORA ASPERA; ACROPORA CYTHEREA; ACROPORA DIGITIFERA; ACROPORA HYACINTHUS; ACROPORA INTERMEDIA; ACROPORA MURICATA; ACROPORA TENUIS; ARTICLE; CORAL; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; DIPSASTRAEA FAVUS; DIPSASTRAEA PALLIDA; DIPSASTRAEA SPECIOSA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FAVITES; GONIASTREA ASPERA; HEAT TOLERANCE; JAPAN; LEPTASTREA PURPUREA; MILLEPORA; MONTIPORA DIGITATA; NONHUMAN; OULASTREA CRISPATA; PAVONA; POCILLOPORA DAMICORNIS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PORITES AUSTRALIENSIS; PORITES CYLINDRICA; PORITES LUTEA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STYLOCOENIELLA; STYLOPHORA PISTILLATA; TEMPERATURE RELATED PHENOMENA; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TEMPERATURE STRESS; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEFS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; JAPAN;

ACROPORA; ACROPORA DIGITIFERA; ANTHOZOA; MERULINIDAE; PORITES;

EID: 84875682389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060952     Document Type: Article

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