Research Letters in Ecology
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 281038, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/281038
Research Letter

Seychelles Lagoon Provides Corals with a Refuge from Bleaching

David Iluz,1 Razi Vago,2 Nanette E. Chadwick,1,3,4 Razi Hoffman,1 and Zvy Dubinsky1

1The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
2Department of Biotechnological and Environmental Engineering and Institute for Applied Biosciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
3Department of Biological Sciences, 101 Rouse Life Sciences Building, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
4Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences, P.O. Box 469, Eilat 88103, Israel

Received 30 December 2007; Accepted 14 May 2008

Academic Editor: Susan Bell

Copyright © 2008 David Iluz et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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