Carbonate Production by Benthic Communities on Shallow Coralgal Reefs of Abrolhos Bank, Brazil.

The abundance of reef builders, non-builders and the calcium carbonate produced by communities established in Calcification Accretion Units (CAUs) were determined in three Abrolhos Bank shallow reefs during the period from 2012 to 2014. In addition, the seawater temperature, the irradiance, and the...

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Main Authors: Vanessa Moura Dos Reis, Cláudia Santiago Karez, Rodrigo Mariath, Fernando Coreixas de Moraes, Rodrigo Tomazetto de Carvalho, Poliana Silva Brasileiro, Ricardo da Gama Bahia, Tito Monteiro da Cruz Lotufo, Laís Vieira Ramalho, Rodrigo Leão de Moura, Ronaldo Bastos Francini-Filho, Guilherme Henrique Pereira-Filho, Fabiano Lopes Thompson, Alex Cardoso Bastos, Leonardo Tavares Salgado, Gilberto Menezes Amado-Filho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4847907?pdf=render