Variability in reproductive output across a water quality gradient for a tropical marine sponge

Marine Biology

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 163-169

  Whalan, S ^a   Battershill, C ^a,b   De Nys, R ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYST; DEMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPONGE; TERRESTRIAL DEPOSIT; WATER QUALITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

RHOPALOEIDES ODORABILE;

EID: 36448960878     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-007-0792-z     Document Type: Article

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