First-generation fitness consequences of interpopulational hybridisation in a Great Barrier Reef coral and its implications for assisted migration management

Coral Reefs

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 607-611

  van Oppen, M J H ^a   Puill Stephan, E ^a   Lundgren, P ^a,b   De'ath, G ^a   Bay, L K ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acropora millepora; Assisted evolution; Assisted migration; Augmentation; Reef restoration

Indexed keywords

ACROPORA MILLEPORA; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84905858513     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-014-1145-2     Document Type: Article

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