Importance of time and place: Patterns in abundance of Symbiodinium clades A and B in the tropical sea anemone Condylactis gigantea

Biological Bulletin

Volumn 215, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 243-252

  Venn, A A ^a,b,d   Loram, J E ^a,b   Trapido Rosenthal, H G ^b,e   Joyce, D A ^c   Douglas, A E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRE SCIENTIFIQUE DE MONACO   (Monaco)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; INVERTEBRATE; MICROALGA; POPULATION DENSITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; ZOOXANTHELLA;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BERMUDA;

ACTINIARIA; ALGAE; ANEMONE; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; CONDYLACTIS GIGANTEA; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 58149095490     PISSN: 00063185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25470708     Document Type: Article

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