Overview of distribution patterns of zooxanthellate Scleractinia

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 2, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Veron, John ^a,b,c   Stafford Smith, Mary ^a   DeVantier, Lyndon ^a   Turak, Emre ^a,b  

^a Coral Reef Research ^*  (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affinity; Biogeography; Coral; Distributions; Diversity; Species

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008951542     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2014.00081     Document Type: Article

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