@article {423,
	title = {Is the Mediterranean coral Cladocora caespitosa an indicator of climatic change ?},
	journal = { Archo Oceanogr.Limnol.},
	volume = {22},
	year = {2001},
	abstract = {<p>Cladocora caespitosa (L.) is a colonial and zooxanthellate scleractinian  coral belonging to the family Faviidae. It occurs throughout the  Mediterranean and can be locally abundant (Zibrowius, 1980). [...] Where  abundant, C. caespitosa occurs in two ways, either as: 1) a great  number of distinct subspherical colonies (10 to 30 cm in diameter); or  2) large formations reaching some decimetres in height and covering  several square meters in surface area. For the latter type of  occurrence, Peirano et al. (1998) proposed the term \&quot;bank\&quot;, for the  former they preferred the rather general and inclusive term \&quot;bed\&quot;. Both  types of occurrence are relatively common in the coastal region around  La Spezia. They are presently under study with the following goals: 1)  to quantify the importance of the species as a builder during the  present time; 2) to understand the influence of major environmental  factors upon the build-ups accretion; 3) to correlate the growth of the  species with climatic data.</p>},
	keywords = {changement climatique, Cladocora caespitosa, climate change, corail, coral, environmental indicator, indicateur environemental, Mediterranean sea, Mer M{\'e}diterran{\'e}e, scleractinian},
	author = {C. Morri and C.N. Bianchi and A. Peirano}
}
