Towards Non-Invasive Methods to Assess Population Structure and Biomass in Vulnerable Sea Pen Fields †

Colonies of the endangered red sea pen Pennatula rubra (Cnidaria: Pennatulacea) sampled by trawling in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea were analyzed. Biometric parameters, such as total length, peduncle length, number of polyp leaves, fresh weight, and dry weight, were measured and related to eac...

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Autores principales: Chimienti, Giovanni, Di Nisio, Attilio, Lanzolla, Anna M. L., Andria, Gregorio, Tursi, Angelo, Mastrototaro, Francesco
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Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6567336/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31096711
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19102255
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author Chimienti, Giovanni
Di Nisio, Attilio
Lanzolla, Anna M. L.
Andria, Gregorio
Tursi, Angelo
Mastrototaro, Francesco
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description Colonies of the endangered red sea pen Pennatula rubra (Cnidaria: Pennatulacea) sampled by trawling in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea were analyzed. Biometric parameters, such as total length, peduncle length, number of polyp leaves, fresh weight, and dry weight, were measured and related to each other by means of regression analysis. Ad hoc models for future inferencing of colonies size and biomass through visual techniques were individuated in order to allow a non-invasive study of the population structure and dynamics of P. rubra.
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spelling pubmed-65673362019-06-17 Towards Non-Invasive Methods to Assess Population Structure and Biomass in Vulnerable Sea Pen Fields † Chimienti, Giovanni Di Nisio, Attilio Lanzolla, Anna M. L. Andria, Gregorio Tursi, Angelo Mastrototaro, Francesco Sensors (Basel) Article Colonies of the endangered red sea pen Pennatula rubra (Cnidaria: Pennatulacea) sampled by trawling in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea were analyzed. Biometric parameters, such as total length, peduncle length, number of polyp leaves, fresh weight, and dry weight, were measured and related to each other by means of regression analysis. Ad hoc models for future inferencing of colonies size and biomass through visual techniques were individuated in order to allow a non-invasive study of the population structure and dynamics of P. rubra. MDPI 2019-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6567336/ /pubmed/31096711 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19102255 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_full_unstemmed Towards Non-Invasive Methods to Assess Population Structure and Biomass in Vulnerable Sea Pen Fields †
title_short Towards Non-Invasive Methods to Assess Population Structure and Biomass in Vulnerable Sea Pen Fields †
title_sort towards non-invasive methods to assess population structure and biomass in vulnerable sea pen fields †
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6567336/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19102255
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