The full extent of the global coral reef crisis

Conservation Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1724-1726

  Madin, Joshua S ^a   Madin, Elizabeth M P ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CORAL REEF; HUMAN ACTIVITY; POPULATION DECLINE;

ANTHOZOA;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CORAL REEFS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84955173813     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12564     Document Type: Article

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