Keep up or drown: Adjustment of western Pacific coral reefs to sea-level rise in the 21st century

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  van Woesik, R ^a   Golbuu, Y ^b   Roff, G ^c  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Palau International Coral Reef Center   (Palau)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coral reefs; Corals; Pacific; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958231177     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.150181     Document Type: Article

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