Sponge mass mortalities in a warming Mediterranean Sea: are cyanobacteria-harboring species worse off?

Mass mortality events are increasing dramatically in all coastal marine environments. Determining the underlying causes of mass mortality events has proven difficult in the past because of the lack of prior quantitative data on populations and environmental variables. Four-year surveys of two shallo...

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Main Authors: Emma Cebrian, Maria Jesus Uriz, Joaquim Garrabou, Enric Ballesteros
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21673798/?tool=EBI