Symbiotic specificity, association patterns, and function determine community responses to global changes: Defining critical research areas for coral-symbiodinium symbioses

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3306-3316

  Fabina, Nicholas S ^a   Putnam, Hollie M ^b   Franklin, Erik C ^b   Stat, Michael ^c,d   Gates, Ruth D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community viability analysis; Interaction networks; Mutualistic communities; Scleractinia; Simulation models; Symbiont diversity; Symbiosis; Zooxanthellae

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMPLEXITY; CORAL REEF; ENDOSYMBIONT; GLOBAL CHANGE; MUTUALISM; PERSISTENCE; PERTURBATION; RECOLONIZATION; SYMBIOSIS; VIABILITY;

MOOREA; SOCIETY ISLANDS; WINDWARD ISLANDS [SOCIETY ISLANDS];

ANTHOZOA; SCLERACTINIA; SYMBIODINIUM;

ALVEOLATA; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY VIABILITY ANALYSIS; INTERACTION NETWORKS; MUTUALISTIC COMMUNITIES; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYNESIA; SCLERACTINIA; SIMULATION MODELS; SYMBIONT DIVERSITY; SYMBIOSIS; ZOOXANTHELLAE;

COMMUNITY VIABILITY ANALYSIS; INTERACTION NETWORKS; MUTUALISTIC COMMUNITIES; SCLERACTINIA; SIMULATION MODELS; SYMBIONT DIVERSITY; SYMBIOSIS; ZOOXANTHELLAE;

ALVEOLATA; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLYNESIA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84885420612     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12320     Document Type: Article

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