Sponge bioerosion on reef-building corals: Dependent on the environment or on skeletal density?

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 441, Issue , 2013, Pages 23-27

  Hernández Ballesteros, Luz M ^a,b   Elizalde Rendón, Erika M ^a   Carballo, José L ^c   Carricart Ganivet, Juan P ^c  

^a EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL MAR   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Calcification rate; Coral reefs; Montastraea annularis; Ocean acidification; Ocean warming; Porites astreoides

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; BIOEROSION; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CALCIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORAL REEF; RADIOGRAPHY; SKELETAL REMAINS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANTHOZOA; MONTASTRAEA ANNULARIS; PORITES ASTREOIDES;

EID: 84873515898     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2013.01.016     Document Type: Article

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