Sexual structure of a highly reproductive, recovering gorgonian population: Quantifying reproductive output

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 469, Issue , 2012, Pages 25-36

  Cupido, Roberta ^a,e   Cocito, Silvia ^a   Manno, Valentina ^b   Ferrando, Sara ^b   Peirano, Andrea ^a   Iannelli, Mimmo ^c   Bramanti, Lorenzo ^d   Santangelo, Giovanni ^e  

^a ENEA Marine Environment Research Centre   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^d INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fecundity tables; Mass mortality; Northwestern Mediterranean; Octocorals; Paramuricea clavata; Population recovery

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COLONY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FECUNDITY; GROWTH RATE; INVERTEBRATE; MASS MORTALITY; POLYP; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SESSILE SPECIES; SEX RATIO; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (NORTHWEST);

GORGONIA; PARAMURICEA CLAVATA;

EID: 84870178682     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09976     Document Type: Article

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