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Skeletal light-scattering accelerates bleaching response in reef-building corals
BACKGROUND: At the forefront of ecosystems adversely affected by climate change, coral reefs are sensitive to anomalously high temperatures which disassociate (bleaching) photosynthetic symbionts (Symbiodinium) from coral hosts and cause increasingly frequent and severe mass mortality events. Suscep...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4800776/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26996922 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12898-016-0061-4 |