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Warm seawater temperature promotes substrate colonization by the blue coral, Heliopora coerulea
BACKGROUND: Heliopora coerulea, the blue coral, is a reef building octocoral that is reported to have a higher optimum temperature for growth compared to most scleractinian corals. This octocoral has been observed to grow over both live and dead scleractinians and to dominate certain reefs in the In...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6768060/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31579631 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7785 |