| Type |
Article |
| Date |
2012-06 |
| Language |
English |
| Author(s) |
Sartoretto Stephane 1, Francour Patrice2 |
| Affiliation(s) |
1 : IFREMER, La Seyne Sur Mer, France.
2 : Univ Nice Sophia Antipolis, EA ECOMERS 4228, Fac Sci, F-06108 Nice 2, France. |
| Source |
Scientia Marina (0214-8358) (Inst Ciencias Mar Barcelona), 2012-06 , Vol. 76 , N. 2 , P. 349-355 |
| DOI |
10.3989/scimar.03262.16B |
| WOS© Times Cited |
14 |
| Keyword(s) |
Eunicella verrucosa, Mediterranean Sea, growth rate, population structure |
| Abstract |
Gorgonians are important organisms in the Mediterranean Sea, where they form rocky benthic communities. Four main species (3 Holaxonia and 1 Scleraxonia) are predominant in infra- and circalittoral communities of the northwestern Mediterranean basin. Other species, such as Eunicella verrucosa (Pallas, 1766), are more rarely encountered. The expansion to unusually shallow bathymetric levels has been noted in the region of Marseilles (France) (between 20 and 40 m depth). A ten-year monitoring of colonies was used to assess the growth rate according to age (size): from 3.33 cm year(-1) (height <15 cm) to 0.62 cm year(-1) (height >40 cm). |
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7 |
646 KB |
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