Coral Bleaching – Breakdown of a Nutrient Exchange Symbiosis
For millions of years, the nutrient exchange symbiosis between corals and their endosymbiotic algae has formed the foundation of the ecological success of coral reefs. Yet, in recent decades anthropogenic climate change is increasingly destabilizing this symbiosis, and thus the reefs that rely on it...
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Online Access: | Rädecker, N. (2019). Coral Bleaching – Breakdown of a Nutrient Exchange Symbiosis. KAUST Research Repository. https://doi.org/10.25781/KAUST-E78Z1 http://hdl.handle.net/10754/655942 |