Hybrid vigor in a tropical pacific soft-coral community

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 423-443

  Slattery, Marc ^a,b   Kamel, Haidy N ^a   Ankisetty, Sridevi ^a   Gochfeld, Deborah J ^b   Hoover, Cindi A ^c   Thacker, Robert W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical ecology; Competition; Fitness; Guam; Hybridization; Predation; Sedimentation; Sinularia maxima; Sinularia polydactyla; Soft corals

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; COEXISTENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYBRID; HYBRID ZONE; HYBRIDIZATION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PREDATION; SEDIMENTATION; SOFT CORAL; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ALCYONACEA; ANTHOZOA; SINULARIA MAXIMA; SINULARIA POLYDACTYLA;

EID: 63849160822     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1339.1     Document Type: Article

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