Host tolerance, not symbiont tolerance, determines the distribution of coral species in relation to their environment at a Central Pacific atoll

Coral Reefs

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 389-398

  Wicks, L C ^a,b   Gardner, J P A ^a   Davy, S K ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive response; Central Pacific Ocean; Coral; Environmental variation; Holobiont; Palmyra Atoll; Sedimentation; Symbiodinium; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ATOLL; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CORAL; CORAL REEF; DINOFLAGELLATE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEDIMENTATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; TOLERANCE;

LINE ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL); PALMYRA ATOLL;

ANTHOZOA; DINOPHYCEAE; MONTIPORA; PALMYRA; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 84860362308     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-011-0849-9     Document Type: Review

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