Unity through nonlinearity: A unimodal coral-nutrient interaction

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1871-1877

  Gil, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral reef; Environmental stressor; Eutrophication; Heterogeneous response; Hump shaped relationship; Nutrient enrichment; Porites

Indexed keywords

CORAL; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GROWTH RATE; HETEROGENEITY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; NONLINEARITY; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANTHOZOA; PORITES;

EID: 84881225385     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1697.1     Document Type: Article

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