Settlement cues in the locally dispersing temperate cup coral Balanophyllia elegans

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 204, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 241-245

  Altieri, Andrew H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL; DISPERSAL; FLOW VELOCITY; LARVAL SETTLEMENT; SUBSTRATE; WATER FLOW;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; BALANOPHYLLIA; BALANOPHYLLIA ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 0037704188     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1543595     Document Type: Article

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