Predicting Coral Species Richness: The Effect of Input Variables, Diversity and Scale

Coral reefs are facing a biodiversity crisis due to increasing human impacts, consequently, one third of reef-building corals have an elevated risk of extinction. Logistic challenges prevent broad-scale species-level monitoring of hard corals; hence it has become critical that effective proxy indica...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Richards, Zoe, Hobbs, Jean-Paul
Format: Journal Article
Published: PLOS 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12914