Edit the description's bibliography (Lizard Island Field Guide)

Edit the description's bibliography


Animalia: species: Acropora muricata

References that assist with identification

  • Wallace, C.C. (1999). Staghorn corals of the world CSIRO, Collingwood, Vic, Australia.

Other references

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  • Cumming, R.L. (2009). Case study: impact of Drupella spp. on reef-building corals of the Great Barrier Reef. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Research Publication, 97: 1-51. LIRS catalog number 1628.
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  • Hirose, M., H. Yamamoto and M. Nonaka (2008). Metamorphosis and acquisition of symbiotic algae in planula larvae and primary polyps of Acropora sp(p). Coral Reefs, 27: 247-254.
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  • Hughes, T.P, A.H. Baird, E.A. Dinsdale, N.A. Moltschaniwskyj, M.S. Pratchett, J.E. Tanner, and B.L. Willis (2012). Assembly rules of reef corals are flexible along a steep climatic gradient. Current Biology, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.02.068. LIRS catalog number 1560.
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  • Messmer, V. (2010). From genes to ecosystems: patterns, processes and consequences of declining biodiversity in coral reef fish communities. PhD thesis, James Cook University. LIRS catalog number 1413.
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  • Nicolet, K.J., K.M. Chong-Seng, M.S. Pratchett, B.L. Willis and M.O. Hoogenboom (2018). Predation scars may infuence host susceptibility to pathogens: evaluating the role of corallivores as vectors of coral disease. Scientific Reports,, 8: 5258. LIRS catalog number 2205.
  • Nozawa, Y. and P.L. Harrison (2008). Temporal patterns of larval settlement and survivorship of two broadcast-spawning acroporid corals, Marine Biology, 155: 347-351.
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  • Page, A.J. (1987). The feeding behaviour and biology of selected corallivorous, prosobranch gastropods from the east coast of Australia, M.Sc. thesis, University of Queensland, Brisbane. LIRS catalog number 258.
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  • Page, C.A. and B. Willis (2006). Distribution, host range and large-scale spatial variability in black band disease prevalence on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 69: 41-51. LIRS catalog number 961.
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