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Rapid Northward Spread of a Zooxanthellate Coral Enhanced by Artificial Structures and Sea Warming in the Western Mediterranean

The hermatypic coral Oculina patagonica can drive a compositional shift in shallow water benthic marine communities in the northwestern Mediterranean. Here, we analyze a long-term, large-scale observational dataset to characterize the dynamics of the species' recent northward range shift along...

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Autores principales: Serrano, Eduard, Coma, Rafel, Ribes, Marta, Weitzmann, Boris, García, María, Ballesteros, Enric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3544859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23341904
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0052739