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- adjective marine biology Of a
coral that is a species that buildscoral reefs
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Examples
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Distribution, abundance and survival of juvenile hermatypic corals (Scleractinia) and the importance of life history strategies in the parent community.
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The initiation of the Leeuwin current coincides with the mass spawning of hermatypic corals and is believed to be a major factor in the distribution and maintenance of coral communities in the region.
Shark Bay, Australia 2008
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Langdon, and M.J. Atkinson, Dependence of calcification on light and carbonate ion concentration for the hermatypic coral Porites compressa, Mar.
Hansen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past? « Climate Audit 2006
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Langdon, and M.J. Atkinson, Dependence of calcification on light and carbonate ion concentration for the hermatypic coral Porites compressa, Mar.
Hansen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past? « Climate Audit 2006
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The recent confirmation of this for hermatypic corals has raised concern over the future of coral reefs because CO(3)(2-) is a decreasing function of increasing pCO(2) in the atmosphere.
HAnsen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past – Continued « Climate Audit 2006
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Brunei forms part of the South China Sea ecoregion, which was known to host 433 hermatypic species.
Brudirect News1 Azlan Othman 2010
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Recolonization of hermatypic corals on submerged lava flows in Hawaii.
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Logan A (1984) Interspecific aggression in hermatypic corals from Bermuda.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Katie Barott et al. 2009
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We cultured four phylogenetically and physiologically different species of hermatypic coral (Acropora verweyi, Galaxea fascicularis, Pavona cactus and Turbinaria reniformis) under ‘normal’ (280 micromol kg(-1)) and ‘low’ (140 micromol kg(-1)) carbonate-ion concentrations.
HAnsen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past – Continued « Climate Audit 2006
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These include 226 of the Gulf’s 891 species of fish, 154 species of marine invertebrates and 11 of its 14 hard or hermatypic corals.
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico 2008
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