Hurricanes Cause Population Expansion of the Branching Coral Acropora palmata (Scleractinia): Wound Healing and Growth Patterns of Asexual Recruits

Marine Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 317-335

  Fong, P ^a   Lirman, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral; disturbance; Florida Keys; hurricanes; populations; recruitment; reefs

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL RECRUITS; BIOLOGICAL DAMAGE; CORAL REEFS; GROWTH PATTERNS; HURRICANES; WOUND HEALING;

ACROPORA PALMATA;

EID: 0029481085     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.1995.tb00415.x     Document Type: Article

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