MORRI , C.

Coral reefs are threatened by multiple global and local disturbances. The Maldives, already heavily hit by the 1998 mass bleaching event, are currently affected also by growing tourism and coastal development that may add to global impacts. Most of the studies investigating effects of local disturbances on coral reefs assessed the response of...

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A sort of dichotomy pervaded ecological studies in the last decades. On the onehand, an important part of ecologists had the diffuse perception that the observational approachof natural history had to fade away in favour of more formal experimental or modellingapproaches. Others, on the other hand, had an increasing perception that these formal...