Lunar periodicity of planula release in the reef-building coral Stylophora pistillata

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 311, Issue , 2006, Pages 93-102

  Zakai, David ^a,b,c   Dubinsky, Zvy ^a,b   Avishai, Amir ^a,b   Caaras, Tamir ^a,b   Chadwick, Nanette E ^a,d  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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

^c Israel Nature and Parks Authority and Israel Electric Corporation   (Israel)

^d AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colony size; Coral reef; Eilat; Lunar cycle; Red Sea; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CORAL REEF; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); LARVA; LUNAR CYCLE;

AFRICA; ASIA; EGYPT; EILAT; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA; RED SEA [(GVR) EGYPT]; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA; STYLOPHORA PISTILLATA;

EID: 33646795690     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps311093     Document Type: Article

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