Climate change impacts on the tree of life: Changes in phylogenetic diversity illustrated for Acropora corals

Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 906-932

  Faith, Daniel P ^a   Richards, Zoe T ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acropora; Biodiversity; Biotic homogenization; Corals; Evosystem services; Extinction; PD; Phylogeny; Risk analysis; Tipping points

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894404210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20797737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/biology1030906     Document Type: Article

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