Long-term monitoring of algal symbiont communities in corals reveals stability is taxon dependent and driven by site-specific thermal regime

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 479, Issue , 2013, Pages 85-97

  Baker, Andrew C ^a,b   McClanahan, Tim R ^b   Starger, Craig J ^c,d   Boonstra, Roxane K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d AAAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Acclimatization; Adaptation; Adaptive bleaching hypothesis; Community change; Indian Ocean; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; ALGA; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONSERVATION STATUS; CORAL; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NICHE; PRIORITIZATION; SURVIVAL; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

INDIAN OCEAN;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; POCILLOPORA; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 84876012056     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10102     Document Type: Article

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