Cold tolerance of subtropical Porites lutea from the northernSouth China Sea

• 作 者: CHEN Tianran LI Shu SHI Qi CHE
• 机 构: KeyLaboratoryofMarginalSeaGeology
• 出 处: 海洋学报：英文版
• 发表日期: 2016年12期
• 关键词: LOW-TEMPERATURE stress cold tolerance SUBTROPICAL coral PORITES lutea northe
• 基金项目: The National Basic Research Program(973 Program)of China under contract Nos 2013CB956103 and 2013CB956104,,the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 41306109,41476038 and 416

Marginal scleractinian corals growing at their latitudinal limits should be quite sensitive to variations in wintersea surface temperatures （SSTs）. An extreme cold event occurring in early 2008 offered a unique opportunityto examine the effect of cold-wat