Shifting paradigms in restoration of the world's coral reefs

Global Change Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 3437-3448

  van Oppen, Madeleine J H ^a,b   Gates, Ruth D ^c   Blackall, Linda L ^b   Cantin, Neal ^a   Chakravarti, Leela J ^a,d   Chan, Wing Y ^a,b   Cormick, Craig ^e   Crean, Angela ^f   Damjanovic, Katarina ^a,b   Epstein, Hannah ^a,d   Harrison, Peter L ^g   Jones, Thomas A ^h   Miller, Margaret ⁱ   Pears, Rachel J ^j   Peplow, Lesa M ^a   Raftos, David A ^k   Schaffelke, Britta ^a   Stewart, Kristen ^l   Torda, Gergely ^a,d   Wachenfeld, David ^j   Weeks, Andrew R ^b   Putnam, Hollie M ^c,m   more..

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e ThinkOutsideThe   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^g SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h USDA ARS Forage and Range Research Laboratory   (United States)

ⁱ NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^j GREAT BARRIER REEF MARINE PARK AUTHORITY   (Australia)

^k MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^l STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

assisted evolution; climate change; coral reefs; global warming; hybrid ecosystems; rehabilitation; restoration; scleractinia

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVOLUTION; GLOBAL WARMING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEFS; ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 85014009497     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13647     Document Type: Review

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