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SUBMITTER: Amado-Filho GM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3335062 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Amado-Filho Gilberto M GM Moura Rodrigo L RL Bastos Alex C AC Salgado Leonardo T LT Sumida Paulo Y PY Guth Arthur Z AZ Francini-Filho Ronaldo B RB Pereira-Filho Guilherme H GH Abrantes Douglas P DP Brasileiro Poliana S PS Bahia Ricardo G RG Leal Rachel N RN Kaufman Les L Kleypas Joanie A JA Farina Marcos M Thompson Fabiano L FL
PloS one 20120420 4
Rhodoliths are nodules of non-geniculate coralline algae that occur in shallow waters (<150 m depth) subjected to episodic disturbance. Rhodolith beds stand with kelp beds, seagrass meadows, and coralline algal reefs as one of the world's four largest macrophyte-dominated benthic communities. Geographic distribution of rhodolith beds is discontinuous, with large concentrations off Japan, Australia and the Gulf of California, as well as in the Mediterranean, North Atlantic, eastern Caribbean and ...[more]