Coral reef encruster communities and carbonate production in cryptic and exposed coral reef habitats along a gradient of terrestrial disturbance

Coral Reefs

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 775-785

  Mallela, J ^a,b  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Coral reef framework; Encrusters; Experimental tiles; Recruitment; River runoff; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BRYOZOAN; CALCIUM CARBONATE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORAL REEF; CORALLINE ALGA; CRYPSIS; DISTURBANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; BRYOZOA; SERPULIDAE;

EID: 37249006946     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-007-0260-8     Document Type: Article

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