Is coral richness related to community resistance to and recovery from disturbance?

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Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Stacy Y ^a   Speare, Kelly E ^a   Long, Zachary T ^b   McKeever, Kimberly A ^a   Gyoerkoe, Megan ^a   Ramus, Aaron P ^a,b   Mohorn, Zach ^a   Akins, Kelsey L ^a   Hambridge, Sarah M ^a   Graham, Nicholas A J ^c   Nash, Kirsty L ^c   Selig, Elizabeth R ^d   Bruno, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Conservation International   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiveristy; Community ecology; Coral reef; Disturbance; Recovery; Resilience; Resistance; Stability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CODING ALGORITHM; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MARINE BIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84897946711     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.308     Document Type: Article

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