Variable responses of benthic communities to anomalously warm sea temperatures on a high-latitude coral reef

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Bridge, Tom C L ^a,b   Ferrari, Renata ^c,d   Bryson, Mitch ^d   Hovey, Renae ^e   Figueira, Will F ^c   Williams, Stefan B ^d   Pizarro, Oscar ^d   Harborne, Alastair R ^f   Byrne, Maria ^c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BENTHOS; BLEACHING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LATITUDE; MACROALGA; MONTIPORA; MORPHOSPECIES; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE STRESS; WATER TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ANTHOZOA; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEAWEED; TEMPERATURE;

ANTHOZOA;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEFS; ECOSYSTEM; SEAWEED; TEMPERATURE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84913554657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113079     Document Type: Article

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