Ecophysiology of coral reef primary producers: Response to natural and anthropogenic environmental change

• Main Author: Johnson, Maggie Dorothy
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2016
• Subjects: Ecology; Biology; algae; coral reef; global warming; nutrient; ocean acidification; primary producer; Line Islands; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1bz3c994; http://n2t.net/ark:/13030/m58w822k

Natural heterogeneity and global change are key environmental drivers of ecosystem structure and function in both terrestrial and marine ecosystems. At the foundation of all food webs are the primary producers, which require macronutrients and photosynthetic substrate in order to fix inorganic carbo...