Coral reef ecosystems under climate change and ocean acidification

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2017, Pages

  Hoegh Guldberg, Ove ^a   Poloczanska, Elvira S ^a,b,d   Skirving, William ^c   Dove, Sophie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Corals; Decline; Ecosystems goods and services; Ocean acidification; Warming ocean

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020174680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00158     Document Type: Review

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