Scleractinian corals
The effects of temperature on embryonic development and larval survival in two scleractinian corals
... some corals (Yamano et ...that scleractinian corals have been tracking climate on geological timescales (Veron 1992, Precht & Aronson 2004, Greenstein & Pandolfi ...of corals south ...
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Interdependence between reef fishes and scleractinian corals
... Abstract. Scleractinian corals are the primary habitat-forming species in healthy, intact coral reef ...of corals will therefore, profoundly alter the structure and dynamics of coral-reef habitats, ...
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Climate change impedes scleractinian corals as primary reef ecosystem engineers
... from scleractinian corals to other inverte- brates such as gorgonians, soft corals, ascidians and sponges (Bak et ...Dead corals are rapidly colonised by a diverse community of algae ...
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Factors affecting community dynamics of scleractinian corals: competition, succession, keystone species and history
... This is the first time that the effect of competition on the fitness of scleractinian corals has been examined, and is also the first detailed investigation of succession, keystone speci[r] ...
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Inter- and intra- specific variation in bleaching susceptibility among scleractinian corals
... of scleractinian corals, assuming that corals are incapable of acclimating or adapting at required ...produce corals that are more tolerant to ...of corals subject to changing ...
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Variation in early post-settlement growth and mortality of scleractinian corals
... juvenile corals during the critically important and poorly studied period from settlement up until corals reached 50 mm maximum ...of corals at these large ...of scleractinian corals ...
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Trophic dynamics of scleractinian corals: stable isotope evidence
... temperate corals Oculina arbuscula and Oculina diffusa (Piniak et ...tropical scleractinian corals, Siderastrea radians, Montastrea franksi, Diploria strigosa and Madracis mirabilis (Mills et ...
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The Assimilation of Diazotroph Derived Nitrogen by Scleractinian Corals Depends on Their Metabolic Status
... by scleractinian corals from the Red Sea exposed to different environmen- tal ...the corals’ metabolic status or with phosphate availability in the ...m) corals showed low or no DDN ...
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Scleractinian Corals and Reefs of Vietnam as a Part of the Pacific Reef Ecosystem
... building corals and reefs performed in the last decades of the twentieth century and first decades ...reef-building scleractinian corals and reefs is presented. The scleractinian fauna of ...
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Physiological models of performance for scleractinian corals
... A fundamental objective of ecology is to evaluate the conditions that permit different species to survive and reproduce, that is, to identify each species’ ‘niche’. The overarching aim of this thesis was to identify and ...
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The effects of temperature on embryonic development and larval survival in two scleractinian corals
... Here, we explore the relationship between 19 temperature, embryonic development and larval survival over an 8°C temperature 20 range -4 to +4°C around the ambient temperature at the time[r] ...
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A survey of cellular reactions to environmental stress and disease in Caribbean scleractinian corals
... tal Protection Agency's Environmental Research Laboratory, Narragansett, Rhode Island, for pro- riding support, laboratory facilities, and assistance with the diagnoses[r] ...
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Biotic and abiotic correlates of tissue quality for common scleractinian corals
... The environmental variables (flow, light and tem- perature) affected the study species differently, both in terms of effect strength and magnitude (Figs. 2 & 3). Water flow velocity was a strong predictor of tis- sue ...
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Tumor formations in scleractinian corals
... Skeletal growth rate in abnormal areas vs adjacent normal areas of different Platygyra colonies... Coral Reef Syrup.[r] ...
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Physiological models of performance for scleractinian corals
... The adaptive significance of phenotypic plasticity (i.e. variation in the expression of a genotype in relation to an environmental influence, sensu Bradshaw 1965) has captured the interest of researchers for decades. It ...
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The influence of photosynthesis on host intracellular pH in scleractinian corals
... The regulation of intracellular pH (pHi) is a fundamental aspect of cell physiology that has received little attention in studies of reef-building corals and symbiotic cnidarians. Here, we investigated the ...
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Systematic and biogeographical patterns in the reproductive biology of scleractinian corals
... of corals, in one evening between dusk and midnight,” was restricted to geographic regions with appropriate proximate ...which corals can synchronize spawning (Harrison & Wallace ...
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Photosystem II breakdown induced by reactive oxygen species in freshly-isolated Symbiodinium from Montipora (Scleractinia; Acroporidae)
... of corals. Multiple colo- nies of 15 species of scleractinian corals (see Table 1) were collected from the shallow water (< 5 m) reefs located at the outlet of a nuclear power plant in the Kenting ...
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The biology and biochemistry of terpenes in Alcyoniidaen corals from the central region of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
... Isolated zooxanthellae and symbiotic individuals of the scleractinian corals Madxacis miI'abilis take up ammonium ions from seawater whereas aposymbiotic individuals do not lewis & Smith[r] ...
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Diversity and distribution of symbiodinium associated with seven common coral species in the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean
... with scleractinian corals in five atolls of the Chagos Archipelago, spread over 10,000 km 2 ...that corals in the Chagos Archipelago host different assemblages of Symbiodinium types then their ...
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