Regional decline of coral cover in the Indo-Pacific: timing, extent, and subregional comparisons.

A number of factors have recently caused mass coral mortality events in all of the world's tropical oceans. However, little is known about the timing, rate or spatial variability of the loss of reef-building corals, especially in the Indo-Pacific, which contains 75% of the world's coral re...

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Main Authors: John F Bruno, Elizabeth R Selig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-08-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1933595?pdf=render