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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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Autores principales: Guzman, Christine, Atrigenio, Michael, Shinzato, Chuya, Aliño, Porfirio, Conaco, Cecilia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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