Effect of temperature on two reef-building corals Pocillopora damicornis and P. verrucosa in the Red Sea

Oceanologia

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 917-935

  Al Sofyani, Abdulmohsin A ^a   Floos, Yahya A M ^b  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b HODEIDAH UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

Author keywords

Coral bleaching; Global warming; Red Sea; Temperature; Zooxanthellae

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; GLOBAL WARMING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

INDIAN OCEAN; MAKKAH [SAUDI ARABIA]; OBHUR CREEK; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN]; SAUDI ARABIA;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; POCILLOPORA DAMICORNIS;

EID: 84887275786     PISSN: 00783234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5697/oc.55-4.917     Document Type: Article

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