Flexibility and Specificity in Coral-Algal Symbiosis: Diversity, Ecology, and Biogeography of Symbiodinium

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 34, Issue , 2003, Pages 661-689

  Baker, Andrew C ^a,b  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^b MC 5557 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bleaching; Climate change; Reef; Scleractinia; Zooxanthellae

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; HOST RANGE; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; SYMBIOSIS; ZOOXANTHELLA;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; DINOPHYCEAE; EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; PROTISTA; SCLERACTINIA; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 0344440739     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.34.011802.132417     Document Type: Review

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