Natural feeding of the temperate asymbiotic octocoral-gorgonian Leptogorgia sarmentosa (Cnidaria: Octocorallia)

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 254, Issue , 2003, Pages 141-150

  Ribes, Marta ^a,c   Coma, Rafel ^b   Rossi, Sergi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Benthic communities; Gorgonians; Mediterranean; Natural feeding; Octocorals; Respiration

Indexed keywords

CORAL; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; RESPIRATION; ZOOPLANKTON;

(NORTHWEST); MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ALCYONARIA; ANTHOZOA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CILIOPHORA; CNIDARIA; COELENTERATA; DINOPHYCEAE; FRAXINUS; GORGONACEA; GORGONIA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPTOGORGIA; LEPTOGORGIA SARMENTOSA;

EID: 0038378767     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps254141     Document Type: Article

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