Growth rates of three symbiotic corals in the Red Sea

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1814-1819

  Vago, R ^a   Dubinsky, Z ^b   Genin, A ^c   Ben Zion, M ^b   Kizner, Z ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL; GROWTH RATE; SEASONALITY; SYMBIOSIS;

RED SEA;

ACROPORA VARIABILIS; ANTHOZOA; HYDROZOA; MILLEPORA DICHOTOMA; STYLOPHORA PISTILLATA;

EID: 3042773919     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1997.42.8.1814     Document Type: Article

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