Rates of overgrowth by macroalgae and attack by sea anemones are greater for live coral than dead coral under conditions of nutrient enrichment

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1167-1175

  Liu, Pi Jen ^a   Lin, Shiue Ming ^a   Fan, Tung Yung ^b   Meng, Pei Jie ^b   Shao, Kwang Tsao ^c   Lin, Hsing Juh ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MARINE BIOLOGY AND AQUARIUM   (Taiwan)

^c BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGGRESSION; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; CORAL; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MACROALGA; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; POLYP;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NANWAN BAY; TAIWAN;

ACROPORA MURICATA; ACTINIARIA; ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; CHLOROPHYTA; CODIUM EDULE; MESACTINIA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 67649868630     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.54.4.1167     Document Type: Article

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