Reef waters stimulate substratum exploration in planulae from brooding Caribbean corals
Reef waters stimulate substratum exploration in planulae from brooding Caribbean corals
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Berlin/Heidelberg: Berlin/Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag
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English
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Berlin/Heidelberg: Berlin/Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag
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This study tested the hypothesis that waters surrounding reefs with healthy coral populations are more likely than degraded sites to induce planulae to navigate downward and begin benthic probing. In the laboratory, larvae from two brooding Caribbean coral species, Agaricia tenuifolia and Porites astreoides, were introduced to seawater collected at...
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Reef waters stimulate substratum exploration in planulae from brooding Caribbean corals
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_21253887
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_21253887
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0722-4028
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1432-0975
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10.1007/s00338-009-0480-1
