Context-dependent effects of nutrient loading on the coral-algal mutualism

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1995-2005

  Shantz, Andrew A ^a   Burkepile, Deron E ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral Growth; Coral Reefs; Eutrophication; Nutrients; Photobiology; Symbiodinium; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CALCIFICATION; CORAL; CORAL REEF; ENRICHMENT; EUTROPHICATION; GROWTH RESPONSE; LIGHT EFFECT; META-ANALYSIS; MUTUALISM; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHOSPHORUS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GROWTH RATE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; OVERFISHING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; CORAL REEF; DINOFLAGELLATE; DRUG EFFECT; EUTROPHICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; META ANALYSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEFS; DINOFLAGELLIDA; EUTROPHICATION; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 84904299549     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1407.1     Document Type: Article

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