Persistence and change in community composition of reef corals through present, past, and future climates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Edmunds, Peter J ^a   Adjeroud, Mehdi ^b,c   Baskett, Marissa L ^d   Baums, Iliana B ^e   Budd, Ann F ^f   Carpenter, Robert C ^a   Fabina, Nicholas S ^d   Fan, Tung Yung ^g   Franklin, Erik C ^h   Gross, Kevin ⁱ   Han, Xueying ^j,k   Jacobson, Lianne ^a,l   Klaus, James S ^m   McClanahan, Tim R ⁿ   O'Leary, Jennifer K ^k   Van Oppen, Madeleine J H ^o   Pochon, Xavier ^p   Putnam, Hollie M ^h   Smith, Tyler B ^q   Stat, Michael ^r   Sweatman, Hugh ^o   Van Woesik, Robert ^s   Gates, Ruth D ^h   more..

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE ARAGO   (France)

^c Laboratoire d'Excellence CORAIL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^g NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MARINE BIOLOGY AND AQUARIUM   (Taiwan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

ⁱ NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

ⁿ WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^o AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^p CAWTHRON INSTITUTE   (New Zealand)

^q UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^s University of Western Australia Oceans Institute and the Centre for Microscopy Characterisation and Analysis ^*  (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROPORA; ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOSSIL; GROWTH RATE; HEAT TOLERANCE; HISTORY; LONGEVITY; MADRACIS; NONHUMAN; ORBICELLA; PHENOTYPE; POCILLOPORA; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SEASONAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES DOMINANCE; STYLOPHORA; TEMPERATURE STRESS; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANTHOZOA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CORAL REEFS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84907494905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107525     Document Type: Article

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