Skeletal mineralogy of newly settling Acropora millepora (Scleractinia) coral recruits

Coral Reefs

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-8

  Clode, P L ^a   Lema, K ^b,c   Saunders, M ^a   Weiner, S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amorphous precursor; Biomineral; Calcification; Calcite; Calcium carbonate; Larvae

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; CALCIFICATION; CALCITE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CORAL REEF; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LARVA; MINERALOGY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SKELETON; TAXONOMY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACROPORA MILLEPORA; ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 79551688901     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-010-0673-7     Document Type: Article

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