Timing of skeletal band formation in Montastraea annularis: Relationship to environmental and endogenous factors

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 423-437

  Mendes, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GROWTH RATE; REPRODUCTION;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; JAMAICA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

INVERTEBRATA; MONTASTRAEA; MONTASTRAEA ANNULARIS;

EID: 10344236014     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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