Coral settlement on a highly disturbed equatorial reef system

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Bauman, Andrew G ^a,e   Guest, James R ^a,b   Dunshea, Glenn ^c   Low, Jeffery ^d   Todd, Peter A ^e   Steinberg, Peter D ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Ecological Marine Services   (Australia)

^d National Biodiversity Centre   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROPORIDAE; ARTICLE; CORAL; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; POCILLOPORIDAE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PORITIDAE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SINGAPORE; SPAWNING; TAXONOMY; AGING; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACROPORIDAE; ANTHOZOA; POCILLOPORIDAE; PORITIDAE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEFS; GEOGRAPHY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SINGAPORE;

EID: 84930669886     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127874     Document Type: Article

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