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The effects of elevated seawater temperatures on Caribbean gorgonian corals and their algal symbionts, Symbiodinium spp.

Global climate change not only leads to elevated seawater temperatures but also to episodic anomalously high or low temperatures lasting for several hours to days. Scleractinian corals are detrimentally affected by thermal fluctuations, which often lead to an uncoupling of their mutualism with Symbi...

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Autores principales: Goulet, Tamar L., Shirur, Kartick P., Ramsby, Blake D., Iglesias-Prieto, Roberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5289496/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28152002
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171032