Typhoon damage on a shallow mesophotic reef in Okinawa, Japan

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Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  White, Kristine N ^a   Ohara, Taku ^b,c   Fujii, Takuma ^b   Kawamura, Iori ^b   Mizuyama, Masaru ^b   Montenegro, Javier ^b   Shikiba, Haruka ^b   Naruse, Tohru ^b   McClelland, Ty ^b   Denis, Vianney ^d   Reimer, James D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c Benthos Divers   (Japan)

^d BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coral reef; Japan; Mesophotic; Succession; Typhoon damage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BENTHOS; COMMUNITY LIVING; CORAL REEF; ENCRUSTING SPECIES; HURRICANE; JAPAN; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; RYUGU REEF; SHALLOW MESOPHOTIC REEF; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE; WIND;

EID: 84885156525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.151     Document Type: Article

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