Calcareous green alga halimeda tolerates ocean acidification conditions at tropical carbon dioxide seeps

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 263-275

  Vogel, Nikolas ^a,b,c   Fabricius, Katharina Elisabeth ^a   Strahl, Julia ^a   Noonan, Sam Hamilton Croft ^a   Wild, Christian ^b,c   Uthicke, Sven ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACIDIFICATION; ADAPTATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH RESPONSE; LIGHT EFFECT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM;

CHLOROPHYTA; HALIMEDA; HALIMEDA OPUNTIA;

EID: 84922611940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lno.10021     Document Type: Article

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