Coral Reefs under Climate Change and Ocean Acidification: Challenges and Opportunities for Management and Policy

Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Volumn 41, Issue , 2016, Pages 59-81

  Anthony, Kenneth R N ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon emissions; Coral bleaching; Decision making; Global change; Resilience; Social ecological system

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; BLEACHING; CLEANING; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; POPULATION STATISTICS; REEFS;

CARBON EMISSIONS; CORAL BLEACHING; GLOBAL CHANGE; RESILIENCE; SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84992184175     PISSN: 15435938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-environ-110615-085610     Document Type: Article

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