Linking reef ecology to island building: Parrotfish identified as major producers of island-building sediment in the Maldives

Geology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 503-506

  Perry, C T ^a   Kench, P S ^b   O'Leary, M J ^c   Morgan, K M ^a   Januchowski Hartley, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; MAINTENANCE; POPULATION STATISTICS; REEFS; SAND; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SURVEYS;

CENSUS DATA; HIGH PRODUCTIVITY; LAGOON SEDIMENTS; MAJOR PRODUCERS; PLATFORM AREA; SEDIMENT PRODUCTION; SEDIMENT SINKS; SIZE FRACTION;

SEDIMENTS;

ATOLL; CENSUS; CORAL REEF; FISH; ISLAND; LAGOON; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

MALDIVES;

ANTHOZOA; HALIMEDA; SCARIDAE;

EID: 84929619447     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G36623.1     Document Type: Article

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