Coral bleaching: Causes and mechanisms

Coral Reefs: An Ecosystem in Transition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 405-419

  Lesser, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

coral bleaching; Corals; global climate change; seawater temperature; zooxanthellae

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855198456     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0114-4_23     Document Type: Chapter

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