Physical and Biological Drivers of Coral-Reef Dynamics

Coral Reefs of the World

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages 261-275

  Aronson, Richard B ^a   Precht, William F ^b  

^a Florida Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

^b Dial Cordy and Associates Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Acropora; Caribbean; Climate change; Coral bleaching; Coral disease; Marine protected areas; MPAs; White band disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 85033680066     PISSN: 2213719X     EISSN: 22137203     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-7567-0_11     Document Type: Chapter

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