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- Title
Limited Dispersal Ability of a Solitary Coral.
- Authors
Miller, Lee N.
- Abstract
The article presents information on a study related to the dispersal of the solitary coral balanophyllia elegans by demersal planular larvae. The study was conducted by Tim Gerrodette. The study suggests that dispersal ability is an integral part of a species' ecology, biogeography, and evolution. Many benthic marine animals achieve wide dispersal during a pelagic larval stage. The study also focuses on a case of demersal larval development and extremely limited dispersal ability in a solitary coral, Balanophyllia elegans, which occurs on rocky reefs off the western coast of North America.
- Subjects
CORAL reef animals; MARINE ecology; SPECIES; CORAL reef organisms; REEFS; LARVAE; DEVELOPMENTAL biology; SPECIES distribution; CORAL reef fishes
- Publication
BioScience, 1981, Vol 31, Issue 3, p241
- ISSN
0006-3568
- Publication type
Article