Present limits to heat-adaptability in corals and population-level responses to climate extremes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Riegl, Bernhard M ^a   Purkis, Sam J ^a   Al Cibahy, Ashraf S ^b   Abdel Moati, Mohammed A ^c   Hoegh Guldberg, Ove ^d  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENT AGENCY ABU DHABI   (United Arab Emirates)

^c Ministry of Environment   (Qatar)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL; CORAL REEF; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GULF STREAM; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL; TROPICS; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; WATER TEMPERATURE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT; HEAT; INDIAN OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANTHOZOA;

WATER;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT; HOT TEMPERATURE; INDIAN OCEAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER;

EID: 80052929351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024802     Document Type: Article

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