Calcification and associated physiological parameters during a stress event in the scleractinian coral Stylophora pistillata

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 29-36

  Moya, Aurélie ^a,b   Ferrier Pagès, Christine ^a   Furla, Paola ^b   Richier, Sophie ^b   Tambutté, Eric ^a   Allemand, Denis ^a,b   Tambutté, Sylvie ^a  

^a CENTRE SCIENTIFIQUE DE MONACO   (Monaco)

^b Laboratoire Environnement Marin Littoral   (France)

Author keywords

Bleaching; Cellular damage; Light and dark calcification rates; Light enhanced calcification; Photosynthetic rates; PSII efficiency; Skeletal growth rates; Zooxanthellae density

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHLOROPHYLL; OXYGEN;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; DINOFLAGELLATE; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEA POLLUTION; STYLOPHORA PISTILLATA; SYMBIOSIS; ZOOXANTHELLAE;

ANTHOZOA; DINOPHYCEAE; SCLERACTINIA; STYLOPHORA PISTILLATA;

EID: 47949112280     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.05.009     Document Type: Article

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