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- Title
Reef Corals: Mutualistic Symbioses Adapted to Nutrient-Poor Environments.
- Authors
Muscatine, L.; Porter, James W.
- Abstract
The article reports on research studies regarding coral reefs. The author discusses the potential nutritional capabilities of corals as mutualistic symbioses and the extent to which specific organismic and ecological manifestations of these capabilities have been described and quantified. A wide range of invertebrates is associated permanently with unicellular algae. According to a study, the incidence of associations between invertebrates and unicellular algae is relatively high in tropical waters and includes the reef-building corals.
- Subjects
CORAL reefs &; islands; ANTHOZOA; SYMBIOGENESIS; CORALS; ZOANTHARIA; INVERTEBRATES; ALGAE; PHYCOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON
- Publication
BioScience, 1977, Vol 27, Issue 7, p454
- ISSN
0006-3568
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1297526