Climatic and biotic thresholds of coral-reef shutdown

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 369-374

  Toth, Lauren T ^a,f   Aronson, Richard B ^a,b   Cobb, Kim M ^c   Cheng, Hai ^d,e   Edwards, R Lawrence ^e   Grothe, Pamela R ^c   Sayani, Hussein R ^c  

^a Florida Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN MARINE STATION   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e University of Minnesota   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SATURATION; SEDIMENT CORE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84925808845     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2541     Document Type: Article

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