Do multi-branched colonial organisms exceed normal growth after partial mortality?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2004, Pages

  Sánchez, Juan Armando ^a,b,c   Lasker, Howard R ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Branching; Gorgonian coral; Growth; Octocorallia; Overcompensation; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL ORGANISM; CORAL; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; REGENERATION;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT STEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATION;

ALCYONARIA; ANTHOZOA; GORGONACEA; GORGONIA; INVERTEBRATA; PSEUDOPTEROGORGIA BIPINNATA;

EID: 10744220145     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0108     Document Type: Article

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