Effect of body size on reef fish tolerance to extreme low and high temperatures

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 339-343

  Ospina, Andrés F ^a   Mora, Camilo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE   (Colombia)

Author keywords

global warming; Pacific Ocean; temperature; thermal tolerance

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CORAL REEF; GLOBAL WARMING; ICHTHYOFAUNA; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

COLOMBIA; GORGONA ISLAND; SOUTH AMERICA; VALLE DEL CAUCA;

ANTHOZOA; PISCES;

EID: 3943052787     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EBFI.0000035429.39129.34     Document Type: Article

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