Hurricane-Driven Patterns of Clonality in an Ecosystem Engineer: The Caribbean Coral Montastraea annularis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Foster, Nicola L ^a,g   Baums, Iliana B ^b   Sanchez, Juan A ^c   Paris, Claire B ^d   Chollett, Iliana ^a,h   Agudelo, Claudia L ^c   Vermeij, Mark J A ^e,f   Mumby, Peter J ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^e CARMABI FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLONAL VARIATION; CORAL; CORAL REEF; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HABITAT QUALITY; HURRICANE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MONTASTRAEA ANNULARIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY;

ANTHOZOA; MONTASTRAEA ANNULARIS;

EID: 84872134298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053283     Document Type: Article

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