Correlation between pollution and decline of Scleractinian Cladocora caespitosa (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Gulf of Gabes

During an expedition in 2014 in the Gulf of Gabes that aimed to evaluate the impact of the pollution of the phosphate industry on the marine environment, numerous dead coral fragments were retrieved from several stations along a 18 km long transect in front of the industry complex of Gabes. Detailed...

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Main Authors: Akram El Kateb, Claudio Stalder, Christoph Neururer, Chiara Pisapia, Silvia Spezzaferri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-11-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844016302134