Ocean acidification reduces coral recruitment by disrupting intimate larval-algal settlement interactions

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 338-346

  Doropoulos, Christopher ^a   Ward, Selina ^a   Diaz Pulido, Guillermo ^a,b   Hoegh Guldberg, Ove ^a   Mumby, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acropora; Coral; Crustose coralline algae; Electivity; Hydrolithon; Ocean acidification; Recruitment; Settlement; Titanoderma

Indexed keywords

ACROPORA; ACROPORA MILLEPORA; ALGAE; ANTHOZOA; HYDROLITHON; INVERTEBRATA; TITANODERMA;

CARBON DIOXIDE; SEA WATER;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CHEMISTRY; CORAL REEF; LARVA; PH; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CORAL REEFS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LARVA; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 84931749081     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01743.x     Document Type: Article

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