Seasonal stability of a flexible algal-cnidarian symbiosis in a highly variable temperate environment

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2233-2242

  Dimond, J L ^a   Bingham, B L ^a,b   Muller Parker, G ^a,c   Wuesthoff, K ^a   Francis, L ^a  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROMETRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COEXISTENCE; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GREEN ALGA; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; INVERTEBRATE; IRRADIANCE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; TRANSECT;

SAN JUAN ISLAND; SAN JUAN ISLANDS; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

ACTINIARIA; ALGAE; ANEMONE; ANTHOPLEURA ELEGANTISSIMA; CHLOROPHYTA; CNIDARIA; DINOPHYCEAE; ELLIPTOCHLORIS; SYMBIODINIUM MUSCATINEI;

EID: 84857721357     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.6.2233     Document Type: Article

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