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Growing coral larger and faster: micro-colony-fusion as a strategy for accelerating coral cover

Fusion is an important life history strategy for clonal organisms to increase access to shared resources, to compete for space, and to recover from disturbance. For reef building corals, fragmentation and colony fusion are key components of resilience to disturbance. Observations of small fragments...

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Autores principales: Forsman, Zac H., Page, Christopher A., Toonen, Robert J., Vaughan, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4614846/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26500822
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1313