Mediterranean marine keystone species on the brink of extinction

Grenier Marie^{1

2}, Idan Tal³, Chevaldonné Pierre¹, Pérez Thierry¹

Affiliations

¹ Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie marine et continentale, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, Avignon Université. Station Marine d'Endoume, Chemin de la batterie des lions, Marseille, France.
² Neuralia SAS, Gardanne, France.
³ Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Grenier Marie et al. Glob Chang Biol. 2023 Apr.

. 2023 Apr;29(7):1681-1683.

doi: 10.1111/gcb.16597. Epub 2023 Jan 28.

Grenier Marie^{1

2}, Idan Tal³, Chevaldonné Pierre¹, Pérez Thierry¹

¹ Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie marine et continentale, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, Avignon Université. Station Marine d'Endoume, Chemin de la batterie des lions, Marseille, France.
² Neuralia SAS, Gardanne, France.
³ Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

No abstract available

Keywords: Mediterranean Sea; marine heatwave; mortality; sponges.

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