The Vulnerability and Resilience of Reef-Building Corals

Current Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2017, Pages R528-R540

  Putnam, Hollie M ^a   Barott, Katie L ^b,c   Ainsworth, Tracy D ^d   Gates, Ruth D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARCHAEON; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CORAL REEFS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND REMEDIATION; HUMANS; MICROBIOTA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 85020162712     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.04.047     Document Type: Review

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