Estimating the Potential for Adaptation of Corals to Climate Warming

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Császár, Nikolaus B M ^a,d   Ralph, Peter J ^a   Frankham, Richard ^b,c   Berkelmans, Ray ^d   van Oppen, Madeleine J H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CORAL REEF; FLUOROMETRY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEAT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYMBIOSIS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLIMATE; CORAL REEFS; FLUOROMETRY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GLOBAL WARMING; HOT TEMPERATURE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 77955093484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009751     Document Type: Article

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