Background mortality rates for recovering populations of Acropora cytherea in the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 86, Issue , 2013, Pages 29-34

  Pratchett, M S ^a   Pisapia, C ^a   Sheppard, C R C ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coral reefs; Cymo melanodactylus; Mortality; Population dynamics; Recovery; Tissue lesions

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE; CORAL MORTALITY; CORAL REEF; CYMO MELANODACTYLUS; HUMAN DISTURBANCES; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RATE; PARTIAL MORTALITY;

POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECOVERY; TISSUE;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

COLONY; CORAL; CORAL REEF; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ACROPORA CYTHEREA; ARTICLE; CORAL; CRAB; CYMO MELANODACTYLUS; INDIAN OCEAN; INFESTATION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION RECOVERY;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BRACHYURA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CORAL REEFS; DATA COLLECTION; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BRITISH INDIAN OCEAN TERRITORY; CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO;

ACANTHASTER PLANCI; ACROPORA CYTHEREA; ANTHOZOA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 84876148799     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: 18790291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2013.02.007     Document Type: Article

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