Microbial diseases of corals: Pathology and ecology

Coral Reefs: An Ecosystem in Transition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 451-464

  Rosenberg, Eugene ^a   Kushmaro, Ariel ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

aspergillosis; bacteria; bacterial bleaching; black band; brown band; coral bleaching; Coral diseases; coral health; coral pathology; porites trematodiasis; skeletal eroding band; vibrio; white band; white plague; white pox; yellow band

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858865481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0114-4_26     Document Type: Chapter

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