Grazing dynamics on a Caribbean reef-building coral

Coral Reefs

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 578-583

  Sanchez J A ^a,b   Gil, Maria F ^a   Chasqui, Luis H ^a   Alvarado, Elvira M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD JORGE TADEO LOZANO   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Grazing; Montastraea annularis; Reef building coral; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

CORAL; CORAL REEF; GRAZING; RECOVERY; REGENERATION;

BOLIVAR [COLOMBIA]; COLOMBIA; ROSARIO ISLANDS; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; MONTASTRAEA ANNULARIS; SPARISOMA CRETENSE; SPARISOMA VIRIDE;

EID: 15444363902     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-004-0419-5     Document Type: Article

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