Environmental controls on daytime net community calcification on a Red Sea reef flat

Coral Reefs

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 697-711

  Bernstein, W N ^a,b   Hughen, K A ^a   Langdon, C ^c   McCorkle, D C ^a   Lentz, S J ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Acidification; Aragonite saturation; CaCO3; Calcification; Coral

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ARAGONITE; BIOINDICATOR; CALCIFICATION; CARBONATE; COASTAL ZONE; CORAL REEF; CORALLINE ALGA; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; SATURATION;

INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

ALGAE; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84955280459     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-015-1396-6     Document Type: Article

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