Effects of spatial distribution and reproductive biology on in situ fertilization rates of a broadcast-spawning invertebrate

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 20-29

  Coma, Rafel ^a,b   Lasker, Howard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GORGONIA; INVERTEBRATA; PSEUDOPLEXAURA POROSA;

BIOLOGICAL FERTILIZATION; CORAL; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPAWNING;

PANAMA, SAN BLAS ISLANDS;

EID: 0030609524     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1542733     Document Type: Article

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