Reduced salinity decreases the fertilization success and larval survival of two scleractinian coral species

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 92, Issue , 2013, Pages 10-14

  Scott, Anna ^a   Harrison, Peter L ^a   Brooks, Lyndon O ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEMS; FERTILIZATION RATES; FERTILIZATION SUCCESS; GREAT BARRIER REEF; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SCLERACTINIAN CORALS;

REEFS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CORAL REEF; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SALINITY; SPAWNING; SURVIVAL; TAXONOMY;

ACROPORA MILLEPORA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL; CORAL REEF; FERTILIZATION; LARVA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PLATYGYRA DAEDALEA; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SALINITY; SCLERACTINIAN; SPAWNING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

ACROPORA MILLEPORA; ANTHOZOA; PLATYGYRA DAEDALEA; SCLERACTINIA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; LARVA; MALE; MORTALITY; SALINITY;

EID: 84887256919     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: 18790291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2013.08.001     Document Type: Article

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