Enhanced pore-water nutrient fluxes by the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea sp. in a Red Sea coral reef

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 411, Issue , 2010, Pages 117-125

  Jantzen, Carin ^a,b,d   Wild, Christian ^b   Rasheed, Mohammed ^c   El Zibdah, Mohammed ^c   Richter, Claudio ^d  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Advective pore water transport; Cassiopea sp.; Nutrient regeneration; Nutrient Uptake; Photosynthesis; Sediment; Upside down jellyfish; Zooxanthellae

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; AUTOTROPHY; BENTHOS; CORAL REEF; JELLYFISH; MARINE SEDIMENT; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POREWATER; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; ZOOXANTHELLA;

INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

ANTHOZOA; CASSIOPEA SP.; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 77955895775     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08623     Document Type: Article

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