Coral reef recovery in the Galápagos Islands: the northernmost islands (Darwin and Wenman)

Coral Reefs

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 421-436

  Glynn, Peter W ^a   Riegl, Bernhard ^b   Purkis, Samuel ^b   Kerr, Jeremy M ^b   Smith, Tyler B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS   (United States)

Author keywords

Echinoid bioerosion; ENSO thermal bleaching; Gal pagos coral recovery; Reef accretion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939976099     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-015-1280-4     Document Type: Article

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