Food-Web Structure and Dynamics of Eastern Tropical Pacific Coral Reefs: Panamá and Galápagos Islands

Food Webs and the Dynamics of Marine Reefs

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Glynn, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Acanthaster; Corallivore; Cryptic consumers; El ni o; Fishes; Gal pagos islands; Global warming; Gulf of panam and chiriqu ; ITCZ; Pocillopora; Sharks; Uva Island

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920753238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195319958.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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