Environmental controls on corallite morphology in the reef coral Montastraea annularis

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 233-260

  Klaus, James S ^a   Budd, Ann F ^b   Heikoop, Jeffrey M ^c   Fouke, Bruce W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CORAL; CORAL REEF; ECOMORPHOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FITNESS; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SKELETON;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CENTRAL AMERICA; CURACAO; LESSER ANTILLES; NETHERLANDS ANTILLES; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

ANTHOZOA; MONTASTRAEA ANNULARIS; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 33947578930     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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