Modelling dispersal and connectivity of broadcast spawning corals at the global scale

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-11

  Wood, S ^a   Paris, C B ^b   Ridgwell, A ^a   Hendy, E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

'Coral Triangle'; Biophysical modelling; Connectivity; Coral biogeography; Coral reefs; East Pacific Barrier; Hawaii; Indian Ocean; Larval dispersal; Tropical eastern Pacific

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOPHYSICS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONNECTIVITY; CORAL REEF; DISPERSAL; LARVA; OCEANIC CURRENT; SPAWNING;

AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; EASTER ISLAND; ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; GREAT BARRIER REEF; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; INDIAN OCEAN; MARQUESAS ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); QUEENSLAND; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; UNITED STATES;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84897091381     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12101     Document Type: Article

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