Recruitment and Resilience of a Harvested Caribbean Octocoral

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Lasker, Howard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTILLOGORGIA ELISABETHAE; ARTICLE; BAHAMAS; CORAL; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; HARVEST; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BAHAMAS; CARIBBEAN REGION; CORAL REEFS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84883618451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074587     Document Type: Article

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