Heat budget and thermal microenvironment of shallow-water corals: Do massive corals get warmer than branching corals?

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1548-1561

  Jimenez, Isabel M ^a   Kühl, Michael ^b   Larkum, A W D ^c   Ralph, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CORAL; CORAL BLEACHING; HEAT BUDGET; IRRADIANCE; LAGOON; SHALLOW WATER; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WARMING;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 47349121567     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.4.1548     Document Type: Article

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