Comparison between the sponge fauna living outside and inside the coralligenous bioconstruction: a quantitative approachCoralligenous habitat results from a multi-stratified accumulation of crustose coralline algae and animal builders in a dynamic equilibrium with disruptive agents....
Integration of esca index through the use of sessile invertebratesThe ESCA (Ecological Status of Coralligenous Assemblages) index was developed to assess the ecological quality of coralligenous habitat using macroalgae as a biological indicator....
Effectiveness of different investigation procedures in detecting anthropogenic impacts on coralligenous assemblagesCoralligenous habitat is one of the most important and sensitive habitats of the Mediterranean Sea and several different sampling procedures are currently used in the ecological...
Coralligenous habitat: patterns of vertical distribution of macroalgal assemblages... Moreover, differences between assemblages related to different environmental conditions were more evident in the shallower zone of distribution of the coralligenous habitat....
