Symbiont distribution along a light gradient within an intertidal cave

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 272-278

  Secord, David ^a   Muller Parker, Gisèle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING; CAVERNICOLOUS SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SYMBIOSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES]; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ACTINIARIA; ALGAE; ANEMONE; CHLOROPHYTA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; DINOPHYCEAE; INVERTEBRATA; SYMBIODINIUM; SYMBIODINIUM MUSCATINEI;

EID: 13444274770     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2005.50.1.0272     Document Type: Article

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