Seasonal mesophotic coral bleaching of Stylophora pistillatain the northern Red Sea

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Nir, Orit ^a   Gruber, David F ^b,c   Shemesh, Eli ^a   Glasser, Eliezra ^a   Tchernov, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; OXYGEN; PIGMENT; PRIMER DNA; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOTOSYNTHETIC RATE; POPULATION RECOVERY; SEA; SEASONAL VARIATION; STYLOPHORA PISTILLATA; SUMMER; SYMBIODINIUM; SYMBIONT; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASON; SEAWEED; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONS; SEAWATER; SEAWEED; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84898623331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084968     Document Type: Article

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