Evaluating Patterns of a White-Band Disease (WBD) Outbreak in Acropora palmata Using Spatial Analysis: A Comparison of Transect and Colony Clustering

Jennifer A. Lentz; Jason K. Blackburn; Andrew J. Curtis

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021830

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Evaluating Patterns of a White-Band Disease (WBD) Outbreak in Acropora palmata Using Spatial Analysis: A Comparison of Transect and Colony Clustering

Jennifer A. Lentz ,

* E-mail: Jennifer.Lentz@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
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Jason K. Blackburn,

Affiliation Emerging Pathogens Institute and the Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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Andrew J. Curtis

Affiliation Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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Evaluating Patterns of a White-Band Disease (WBD) Outbreak in Acropora palmata Using Spatial Analysis: A Comparison of Transect and Colony Clustering

Jennifer A. Lentz,
Jason K. Blackburn,
Andrew J. Curtis

Published: July 19, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021830

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