The influence of irradiance on the severity of thermal bleaching in sea anemones that host anemonefish

Coral Reefs

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 273-284

  Hill, R ^a   Scott, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bleaching; Chlorophyll a fluorescence; Climate change; Entacmaea quadricolor; Symbiodinium; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING; CHLOROPHYLL A; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INVERTEBRATE; IRRADIANCE; MORTALITY; PERCIFORM; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POLYP; REEF; RESIDENT POPULATION; SEAWATER; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THRESHOLD; VULNERABILITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; NORTH SOLITARY ISLAND;

ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; ENTACMAEA QUADRICOLOR; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 84857191451     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-011-0848-x     Document Type: Article

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