Coral bleaching - Capacity for acclimatization and adaptation

Advances in Marine Biology

Volumn 46, Issue , 2003, Pages 183-223

  Coles, S L ^a   Brown, Barbara E ^b  

^a BISHOP MUSEUM   (United States)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; ADAPTATION; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; GLOBAL WARMING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALGA; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; DINOFLAGELLATE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; SYMBIOSIS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALGAE; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; DINOFLAGELLIDA; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MORTALITY; PIGMENTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0041779554     PISSN: 00652881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2881(03)46004-5     Document Type: Review

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