Responses of Stylophora pistillata and Millepora dichotoma to seawater temperature elevation

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 745-755

  Abramovitch Gottlib, Liat ^a   Katoshevski, David ^a   Vago, Razi ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL; GROWTH; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; SURVIVAL; VIABILITY; WARMING; WATER TEMPERATURE; ZOOXANTHELLA;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; HYDROZOA; MILLEPORA; MILLEPORA DICHOTOMA; SCLERACTINIA; STYLOPHORA PISTILLATA;

EID: 1942518829     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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