Density and compressive strength of the coral Siderastrea siderea (Scleractinia: Siderastreidae): Intraspecific variability

 

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Autoren: Jiménez, Carlos, Cortés, Jorge
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publikationsdatum:1993
Beschreibung:Structural characteristics of ramose corals may vary in different parts of the branches due to different growth patterns (Tunnicliffe 1982). Nevertheless, in massive corals, which have ra­dial growth (Barnes 1973), it is considered that skeletal structure will not vary significantly within the same colony (Schneider and Smith 1982, Hughes 1987). In this study the density and compressive strength of the coral Siderastrea siderea (Ellis and Solander 1786) was determined to test the "homogeneity" of skeletal structure of massive corals.
Land:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Sprache:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/29282
Online Zugang:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/29282
Access Level:acceso abierto
Stichwort:Density
compressive-strength
variability
coral-skeleton
Siderastrea