Environmental limits to growth: Physiological niche boundaries of corals along turbidity-light gradients

Oecologia

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 373-384

  Anthony, Kenneth R N ^a   Connolly, Sean R ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Energy balance; Functional response; Irradiance; Scleractinian coral; Sediment

Indexed keywords

CORAL; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GROWTH; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SEDIMENT; TURBIDITY;

ACROPORA VALIDA; ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA; TURBINARIA MESENTERINA;

SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHEMISTRY; ECOLOGY; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENETICS; LIGHT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEDIMENT;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CALIBRATION; ECOLOGY; ENERGY METABOLISM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LIGHT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEAWATER;

EID: 16644402370     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1647-7     Document Type: Article

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