Growth and demography of the solitary scleractinian coral Leptopsammia pruvoti along a sea surface temperature gradient in the mediterranean sea

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Caroselli, Erik ^a   Zaccanti, Francesco ^a   Mattioli, Guido ^b   Falini, Giuseppe ^a   Levy, Oren ^c   Dubinsky, Zvy ^c   Goffredo, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Hospital of Porretta Terme   (Italy)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BALANOPHYLLIA EUROPAEA; CALCIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH RATE; HEAT STRESS; HEAT TOLERANCE; LEPTOPSAMMIA PRUVOTI; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SYMBIONT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ITALY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE;

ANTHOZOA; BALANOPHYLLIA EUROPAEA; LEPTOPSAMMIA PRUVOTI; SCLERACTINIA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84861722035     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037848     Document Type: Article

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