The response of the Mediterranean gorgonian Eunicella singularis to thermal stress is independent of its nutritional regime.

Over the last few decades, sessile benthic organisms from the Mediterranean Sea have suffered from the global warming of the world's oceans, and several mass mortality events were observed during warm summers. It has been hypothesized that mortality could have been due to a nutrient (food) shor...

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Main Authors: Leïla Ezzat, Pierre-Laurent Merle, Paola Furla, Alexandre Buttler, Christine Ferrier-Pagès
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3648542?pdf=render