Damage and recovery of four Philippine corals from short-term sediment burial

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 176, Issue , 1999, Pages 11-15

  Wesseling, Ineke ^a   Uychiaoco, André J ^b   Aliño, Porfirio M ^b   Aurin, Therese ^b   Vermaat, Jan E ^a  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b University of the Philippines Diliman   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Acropora; Bleaching; Galaxea; Heliopora; Partial mortality; Porites; SE Asia; Siltation; Tissue necrosis

Indexed keywords

CORAL; MORTALITY; SEDIMENT;

PHILIPPINES;

ACROPORA; GALAXEA; HELIOPORA; PORITES;

EID: 0033580110     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps176011     Document Type: Article

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