Thermal stress and coral cover as drivers of coral disease outbreaks.
Very little is known about how environmental changes such as increasing temperature affect disease dynamics in the ocean, especially at large spatial scales. We asked whether the frequency of warm temperature anomalies is positively related to the frequency of coral disease across 1,500 km of Austra...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2007-06-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1865563?pdf=render |