Using energetic budgets to assess the effects of environmental stress on corals: Are we measuring the right things?

Coral Reefs

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 25-33

  Lesser, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon budgets; Climate change; Corals; Energy budgets; Metabolism

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOENERGETICS; BIOPHYSICS; CARBON BUDGET; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL REEF; ENERGY BUDGET; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS;

ANTHOZOA; INVERTEBRATA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 84874809344     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-012-0993-x     Document Type: Article

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