Shift from coral to macroalgae dominance on a volcanically acidified reef

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1083-1088

  Enochs, I C ^a,b   Manzello, D P ^b   Donham, E M ^c,d   Kolodziej, G ^a,b   Okano, R ^e   Johnston, L ^e   Young, C ^b   Iguel, J ^e   Edwards, C B ^f   Fox, M D ^f   Valentino, L ^a,b   Johnson, S ^e   Benavente, D ^e   Clark, S J ^b   Carlton, R ^a,b   Burton, T ^a   Eynaud, Y ^f   Price, N N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

^e CNMI   (Northern Mariana Islands)

^f CENTER FOR MARINE BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID WATER; ACIDIFICATION; CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CORAL REEF; DOMINANCE; MACROALGA; PH; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEAWATER; SKELETON; VOLCANIC ISLAND;

MARIANA ISLANDS;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84948142164     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2758     Document Type: Article

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