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Novel Pathways for Injury from Offshore Oil Spills: Direct, Sublethal and Indirect Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Pelagic Sargassum Communities

The pelagic brown alga Sargassum forms an oasis of biodiversity and productivity in an otherwise featureless ocean surface. The vast pool of oil resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill came into contact with a large portion of the Gulf of Mexico’s floating Sargassum mats. Aerial surveys perfo...

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Autores principales: Powers, Sean P., Hernandez, Frank J., Condon, Robert H., Drymon, J. Marcus, Free, Christopher M.
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/PMC3783491/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24086378
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0074802