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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3999099?pdf=render