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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Carricart Ganivet, JP

Titel

Partial bleaching in Porites porites (Cnidaria: Scleractinia) in the Isla Verde Reef, Veracruz, Mexico

Ist Teil von

• Revista de biología tropical, 1993-01, Vol.41 (3A), p.495-498

Erscheinungsjahr

1993

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Samples of Porites porites with bleached tip branches were collected in the flat of Isla Verde Reef, Veracruz, Mexico. For each colony the density of zooxanthellae was higher in the areas with normal appearance, while the ratios chlorophyll a /zooxanthellae were higher in the bleached areas. The chlorophyll a concentrations/cm super(2) did not differ significantly between the two areas. The bleaching on the tip branches of P. porites migth be caused by environmental factors, and it does not appear to effect the photosynthetic area.