Especialistas subtropicales dominan un frente de expansión de corales

Fiona Chong1,2,3, Giun Yee Soong4, Agus Alim Hakim2,5

  • 1Energy and Environment Institute, University of Hull, Hull, UK.

Coral reefs (Online)
|February 23, 2026
PubMed
Resumen

La especificidad del anfitrión-simbionte del coral limita la expansión del rango de los corales tropicales hacia los arrecifes de alta latitud. Los corales tropicales Pocillopora y sus simbiontes estuvieron ausentes de Japón continental, lo que pone en duda la tropicalización de los corales.

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