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Historical Temperature Variability Affects Coral Response to Heat Stress

Coral bleaching is the breakdown of symbiosis between coral animal hosts and their dinoflagellate algae symbionts in response to environmental stress. On large spatial scales, heat stress is the most common factor causing bleaching, which is predicted to increase in frequency and severity as the cli...

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Autores principales: Carilli, Jessica, Donner, Simon D., Hartmann, Aaron C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3316685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22479626
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034418