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Can sea urchins beat the heat? Sea urchins, thermal tolerance and climate change

The massive die-off of the long-spined sea urchin, Diadema antillarum, a significant reef grazer, in the mid 1980s was followed by phase shifts from coral dominated to macroalgae dominated reefs in the Caribbean. While Diadema populations have recovered in some reefs with concomitant increases in co...

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Autor principal: Sherman, Elizabeth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4465948/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26082862
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1006