Does Trophic Status Enhance or Reduce the Thermal Tolerance of Scleractinian Corals? A Review, Experiment and Conceptual Framework

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Fabricius, Katharina E ^a   Cséke, Szilvia ^a,b   Humphrey, Craig ^a   De'ath, Glenn ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; SEA WATER;

ACROPORA MILLEPORA; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; BONE GROWTH; COASTAL WATERS; COMMUNITY SUCCESSION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; EUTROPHICATION; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; HEAT STRESS; HEAT TOLERANCE; MONTIPORA TUBERCULOSA; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; SEDIMENT; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEFS; GLOBAL WARMING; HOT TEMPERATURE; SEAWATER; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE;

ACROPORA MILLEPORA; ANTHOZOA; MONTIPORA TUBERCULOSA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 84872538944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054399     Document Type: Article

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