Annual density banding in massive coral skeletons: Result of growth strategies to inhabit reefs with high microborers' activity?

Marine Biology

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-5

  Carricart Ganivet, J P ^a  

^a EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CORAL REEF; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH RATE; MORPHOLOGY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANTHOZOA; MONTASTRAEA; PORITES;

EID: 35348899135     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-007-0780-3     Document Type: Review

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