Long-Term Responses of the Endemic Reef-Builder Cladocora caespitosa to Mediterranean Warming

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Kersting, Diego K ^a   Bensoussan, Nathaniel ^b   Linares, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b IPSO FACTO   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLADOCORA CAESPITOSA; CORAL; CORAL REEF; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TISSUE NECROSIS; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; ISLANDS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MORTALITY; NECROSIS; SEASONS; SEAWATER; SPAIN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84881515242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070820     Document Type: Article

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