Benthic assemblages and temperature effects on Paracentrotus lividus and Arbacia lixula larvae and settlement

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 407, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-11

  Privitera, Davide ^a   Noli, Michela ^a   Falugi, Carla ^a   Chiantore, Mariachiara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Echinoids population dynamic; Larval ecology; Mediterranean Sea warming; Sea urchins settlement

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BENTHOS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECHINODERM; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD QUALITY; GRAZING; JUVENILE; LARVA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; METAMORPHOSIS; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANKTON; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR; REARING; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); ROCKY SHORE; SEAWATER; SEAWEED; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBSTRATE; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ALGAE; ARBACIA; ARBACIA LIXULA; CORALLINA ELONGATA; CORALLINALES; CRICOSPHAERA ELONGATA; ECHINOIDA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA; LITHOPHYLLUM INCRUSTANS; PARACENTROTUS; PARACENTROTUS LIVIDUS; POSIDONIA OCEANICA; STYPOCAULON SCOPARIUM;

EID: 79960893749     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2011.06.030     Document Type: Article

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