Recruitment, early survival and growth of the Mediterranean red coral Corallium rubrum (L 1758), a 4-year study

By Lorenzo Bramanti, G. Magagnini, Lucio De Maio, G. Santangelo. 2005

119 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Upper thermal thresholds of shallow vs. deep populations of the precious Mediterranean red coral Corallium rubrum (L.): Assessing the potential effects of warming in the NW Mediterranean (2008, background): “The Mediterranean red coral is a long-lived azooxanthellate octocoral (N100 years) with low growth and recruitment rates (Bramanti et al., 2005; Garrabou and Harmelin, 2002; Marschal et al., 2004).”
Low connectivity and declining genetic variability along a depth gradient in Corallium rubrum populations (2011, background): “Indeed, summer spawning has been found to occur earlier in shallow-water red coral colonies than in deep ones (Vighi 1972; Santangelo et al. 2003, Tsounis et al. 2006b), with higher recruitment rates in the shallower habitats (Bramanti et al. 2005).”
Deep-water Corallium rubrum (L., 1758) from the Mediterranean Sea: preliminary genetic characterisation (2010, background): “Conversely, only limited knowledge is available on the intermediate-water commercially valuable populations (Garrabou et al. 2001; Bramanti et al. 2005; Tsounis et al. 2006; Rossi et al. 2008; Torrents et al. 2008).”
Mediterranean coralligenous assemblages: A synthesis of present knowledge (2006, background): “Growth rates in colony height have been estimated to be around 1.8 mm yr–1 (Garrabou & Harmelin 2002, Bramanti et al. 2005).”