Effects of reduced dissolved oxygen concentrations on physiology and fluorescence of hermatypic corals and benthic algae

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Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Haas, Andreas F ^a,b   Smith, Jennifer E ^b   Thompson, Melissa ^b   Deheyn, Dimitri D ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral algae competition; Ecology; Fluorescence; Hypoxia; Marine biology; Oxygen; Photobiology

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

ALGA; ARTICLE; BRYOPSIDA; CORAL; FLUORESCENCE; HYPOXIA; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 84895734296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.235     Document Type: Article

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