Community change and evidence for variable warm-water temperature adaptation of corals in Northern Male Atoll, Maldives

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 80, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 107-113

  McClanahan, T R ^a   Muthiga, N A ^a  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive bleaching hypothesis; Disturbance; Global climate change; Indian Ocean; Life histories

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BLEACHING HYPOTHESIS; DISTURBANCE; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; INDIAN OCEAN; LIFE HISTORY;

BLEACHING; CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLEANING;

ADAPTATION; BLEACHING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CORAL; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LIFE HISTORY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPATIAL VARIATION; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ACROPORA; ALVEOPORA; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CORAL; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FAVITES; FUNGIA; GALAXEA ASTREATA; GONIOPORA; HYDNOPHORA; INDIAN OCEAN; LEPTORIA; MALDIVES; MONTIPORA; NONHUMAN; PAVONA; PLATYGYRA; POCILLOPORA; PORITES; SERIATOPORA; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STYLOPHORA; SYNAREA; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TUBIPORA;

ADAPTIVE BLEACHING HYPOTHESIS; DISTURBANCE; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE; INDIAN OCEAN; LIFE HISTORIES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEFS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLOBAL WARMING; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE;

MALDIVES;

ACROPORA; ALVEOPORA; ANTHOZOA; FAVITES; FUNGIA; GALAXEA ASTREATA; GONIOPORA; HYDNOPHORA; LEPTORIA; MONTIPORA; PAVONA; PLATYGYRA; POCILLOPORA; PORITES; SERIATOPORA; STYLOPHORA (CORAL); SYNAREA; TUBIPORA;

EID: 84896405335     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.01.035     Document Type: Article

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