Assessment of Acropora palmata in the Mesoamerican Reef System.
The once-dominant shallow reef-building coral Acropora palmata has suffered drastic geographical declines in the wider Caribbean from a disease epidemic that began in the late 1970s. At present there is a lack of quantitative data to determine whether this species is recovering over large spatial sc...
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| Main Authors: | Rosa E Rodríguez-Martínez, Anastazia T Banaszak, Melanie D McField, Aurora U Beltrán-Torres, Lorenzo Álvarez-Filip |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-01-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0096140&type=printable |
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