Coral mortality by algae -Reply

Jan Korrubel korrubelj at math.unp.ac.za
Thu Jan 15 02:23:57 EST 1998


Hector Reyes Bonilla <hreyes at calafia.uabcs.mx>asked:

...I observed that most of them die because of overgrowing 
of other species (mostly algae).....Do you know of any paper
doing explicit reference of this?

>> I have the following reference:

KEATS, D.W.; CHAMBERLAIN, Y.M. & BABA, M.  1997. 
Pneophyllum conicum (Dawson) comb. Nov. (Rhodophyta,
Corallinaceae), a widespread Indo-Pacific non-geniculate alga
that overgrows and kills live coral.  Botanica Marina 40(4):
263-279. 

>> Hopes it's of some use.

Regards,

Jan Korrubel
University of Natal
South Africa.




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