Biogeography and change among regional coral communities across the western Indian Ocean

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  McClanahan, Timothy R ^a   Ateweberhan, Mebrahtu ^a,b   Darling, Emily S ^c,e   Graham, Nicholas A J ^d   Muthiga, Nyawira A ^a  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BLEACHING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORAL REEF; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; GENUS; GEOGRAPHY; INDIAN OCEAN; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); KENYA; LATITUDE; MADAGASCAR; MALDIVES; MOZAMBIQUE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SEYCHELLES; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TANZANIA; TAXON; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEFS; DATA COLLECTION; INDIAN OCEAN; LINEAR MODELS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84899509865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093385     Document Type: Article

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