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Annual Thermal Stress Increases a Soft Coral’s Susceptibility to Bleaching

Like scleractinian corals, soft corals contain photosymbionts (Family Symbiodiniaceae) that provide energy for the host. Recent thermal events have resulted in soft coral bleaching in four of five years on Guam, where they dominated back-reef communities. Soft coral bleaching was examined in Sinular...

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Autores principales: Slattery, Marc, Pankey, M. Sabrina, Lesser, Michael P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6542812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31147567
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-44566-9