Temperature anomalies and mortality events in marine communities: Insights on factors behind differential mortality impacts in the NW Mediterranean

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Crisci, Carolina ^a   Bensoussan, Nathaniel ^b   Romano, Jean Claude ^c   Garrabou, Joaquim ^a,d  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b SARL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE CORSE   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEAT TOLERANCE; HYDROLOGY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SPECIES; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; PARAMURICEA CLAVATA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; AQUATIC SPECIES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON;

GORGONIA; PARAMURICEA CLAVATA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 80052623323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023814     Document Type: Article

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