Identifying multiple coral reef regimes and their drivers across the hawaiian archipelago

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1659, 2015, Pages 1-8

  Jouffray, Jean Baptiste ^a,b   Nyström, Magnus ^b   Norström, Albert V ^b   Williams, Ivor D ^c   Wedding, Lisa M ^d   Kittinger, John N ^d,e   Williams, Gareth J ^f  

^a ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boosted regression trees; Coral reefs; Disturbance; Hawai i; Multiple regimes; Resilience

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ARCHIPELAGO; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BENTHOS; COEXISTENCE; CORAL REEF; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HABITAT QUALITY; HERBIVORE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84911919473     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0268     Document Type: Article

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