Recurrent Disturbances and the Degradation of Hard Coral Communities in Taiwan

• Chao-Yang Kuo,

  Affiliations Biodiversity Research Center/Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP), Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taipei, Taiwan, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

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• Yeong Shyan Yuen,

  Affiliations Biodiversity Research Center/Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP), Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Pei-Jie Meng,

  Affiliations National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, Checheng, Pingtung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Marine Biodiversity & Evolutionary Biology, National Dong Hwa University, Checheng, Pingtung, Taiwan

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• Ping-Ho Ho,

  Affiliation Institute of Fishery and Environmental Biology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan

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• Jih-Terng Wang,

  Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, Tajen University, Yanpu, Pingtung, Taiwan

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• Pi-Jen Liu,

  Affiliations National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, Checheng, Pingtung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Marine Biodiversity & Evolutionary Biology, National Dong Hwa University, Checheng, Pingtung, Taiwan

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• Yang-Chi Chang,

  Affiliation Department of Marine Environment and Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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• Chang-Feng Dai,

  Affiliation Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Tung-Yung Fan,

  Affiliations National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, Checheng, Pingtung, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Marine Biodiversity & Evolutionary Biology, National Dong Hwa University, Checheng, Pingtung, Taiwan

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• Hsing-Juh Lin,

  Affiliation Institute of Life Science, Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Andrew Hamilton Baird,

  Affiliation ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

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• Chaolun Allen Chen

  * E-mail: cac@gate.sinica.edu.tw

  Affiliations Biodiversity Research Center/Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP), Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taipei, Taiwan, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia, Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

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