Microheterotrophy in the zooxanthellate coral Stylophora pistillata: Effects of light and ciliate density

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1639-1648

  Ferrier Pages C ^a   Allemand, D ^a   Gattuso, J P ^a,b   Jaubert, J ^a   Rassoulzadegan, F ^b  

^a CENTRE SCIENTIFIQUE DE MONACO   (Monaco)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CILIATE; CORAL; HETEROTROPHY; INGESTION RATE; LIGHT EFFECT; ZOOXANTHELLA;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; SCLERACTINIA; STYLOPHORA PISTILLATA; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 0031797801     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.7.1639     Document Type: Article

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