Landscape ecology of algal symbionts creates variation in episodes of coral bleaching

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6639, 1997, Pages 265-269

  Rowan, Rob ^a,b   Knowlton, Nancy ^a   Baker, Andrew ^a,c   Jara, Javier ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUAM MARINE LABORATORY   (Guam)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; DNA; RNA;

ALGAL SYMBIONT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORAL BLEACHING; DINOFLAGELLATE; IRRADIANCE; LIGHT EFFECTS; SYMBIONTS; ZOOXANTHELLAE;

ALGA; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; DINOFLAGELLATE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; GENE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; CNIDARIA; DINOFLAGELLIDA; ECOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SYMBIOSIS;

CARIBBEAN SEA;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; DINOPHYCEAE; MONTASTRAEA ANNULARIS; MONTASTRAEA FAVEOLATA; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 0030855057     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/40843     Document Type: Article

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