Relationship between light and the δ15N of coral tissue: Examples from Jamaica and Zanzibar

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 909-920

  Heikoop, Jeffrey M ^a   Dunn, Jennifer J ^a   Risk, Michael J ^a   Sandeman, Ian M ^b   Schwarcz, Henry P ^a   Waltho, Nigel ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGARICIA AGARICITES; ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; INVERTEBRATA; LOBATA; MONTASTRAEA ANNULARIS; MONTASTREA ANNULARIS; PORITES ASTREOIDES; PORITES LOBATA;

EID: 0031709903     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.5.0909     Document Type: Article

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