Competition among sessile organisms on coral reefs

Coral Reefs: An Ecosystem in Transition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 347-371

  Chadwick, Nanette E ^a   Morrow, Kathleen M ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

abrasion; actinarian; aggression; allelopathy; alternate dominant; antibiotic; ascidian; bacteria; bleaching; chimera; climate change; cnidarian; community structure; competition; competitive network; coral; coral algal interaction; corallimorpharian; cyanobacteria; disease; diversity; exploitation competition; feedback loop; fungiid; growth; herbivory; hydrocoral; Interference competition; macroalgae; microorganism; model; mortality; mucus; natural products; nematocyst; octocoral; palytoxin; phase shift; population; recruitment; reproduction; scleractinian; sea anemone; soft coral; sponge; stony coral; zoanthid

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891977349     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0114-4_20     Document Type: Chapter

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