Deep reefs are not universal refuges: Reseeding potential varies among coral species

Science Advances

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Bongaerts, Pim ^a   Riginos, Cynthia ^a   Brunner, Ramona ^a,b   Englebert, Norbert ^a   Smith, Struan R ^c   Hoegh Guldberg, Ove ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c Bermuda Ministry of Environment and Sports   (Bermuda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; GENES;

DE NOVO SEQUENCING; EFFECTIVE CONNECTIVITIES; ENDOSYMBIONT; MESOPHOTIC CORALS; SCLERACTINIAN; SCLERACTINIAN CORALS; SHALLOW REEFS; WESTERN ATLANTIC;

REEFS;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CORAL REEF; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEFS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 85019614866     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602373     Document Type: Article

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