Larval connectivity across temperature gradients and its potential effect on heat tolerance in coral populations

Global Change Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 3539-3549

  Kleypas, Joan A ^a   Thompson, Diane M ^a,b   Castruccio, Frederic S ^a   Curchitser, Enrique N ^c   Pinsky, Malin ^c   Watson, James R ^d  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

connectivity; coral reefs; larval dispersal; oceanographic modeling; thermal stress

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CORAL BLEACHING; CORAL REEF; LARVAL TRANSPORT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

CORAL TRIANGLE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANTHOZOA;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEF; HEAT TOLERANCE; LARVA; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEFS; LARVA; TEMPERATURE; THERMOTOLERANCE;

EID: 84973594894     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13347     Document Type: Article

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