Unexpected long-term population dynamics in a canopy-forming gorgonian coral following mass mortality

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 394, Issue , 2009, Pages 195-200

  Cupido, Roberta ^a,b   Cocito, Silvia ^a   Barsanti, Mattia ^a   Sgorbini, Sergio ^a   Peirano, Andrea ^a   Santangelo, Giovanni ^b  

^a ENEA Marine Environment Research Centre   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eastern Ligurian Sea; Global climate change; Mass mortality; Octocorals; Paramuricea clavata; Population dynamics; Recruitment; Sediment cover

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORAL; GLOBAL CHANGE; MASS MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; THERMOCLINE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA; GORGONACEA; GORGONIA; PARAMURICEA CLAVATA;

EID: 71849101475     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08260     Document Type: Article

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