Corrigendum: Long-term shifts in coral communities on shallow to deep reef slopes of curaçao and Bonaire: Are there any winners? [Front. Mar. Sci., 3, (2016) (247)] doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00247;Long-term shifts in coral communities on shallow to deep reef slopes of Curaçao and Bonaire: Are there any winners?

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2016, Pages

  de Bakker, Didier M ^a,b   Meesters, Erik H ^a   Bak, Rolf P M ^b,c   Nieuwland, Gerard ^b   van Duyl, Fleur C ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c CARMABI FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic stress; Carbonate production; Caribbean; Coral; Coral community dynamics; Reef degradation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008704814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00171     Document Type: Erratum

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