Effects of the 1997-1998 El Niño on the cnidarian community of a high turbidity coral reef system (northern Bahia, Brazil)

Coral Reefs

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 541-550

  Kelmo, Francisco ^a,b   Attrill, Martin J ^a   Jones, Malcolm B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Fellow of the National Research Council   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Actiniarians; ENSO; Environmental stress; Hydroids; Octocorals; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CORAL REEF; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; TURBIDITY;

BAHIA; BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

ACTINIARIA; ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; HYDROIDA; HYDROZOA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 0345767143     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-003-0343-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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