{"refrec":{"BRefID":330920,"RR":"<b>Teixidó, N.; Bensoussan, N.; Gori, A.; Fiorillo, I.; Viladrich, N.</b> (2016). Sexual reproduction and early life-history traits of the Mediterranean soft coral <i>Alcyonium acaule</i>. <i>Mar. Ecol. (Berl.) 37(1)</i>: 134-144. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maec.12255\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maec.12255</a>","BEntID":324531,"PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":0,"wosflag":1,"vabbflag":0,"RefStringPartII":". <i>Mar. Ecol. (Berl.) 37(1)</i>: 134-144. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maec.12255\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maec.12255</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":1,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Teixidó, N.; Bensoussan, N.; Gori, A.; Fiorillo, I.; Viladrich, N.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"Teixidó, N. <i>et al.</i>","Englishabstract":"Understanding processes that contribute to a better comprehension of the population dynamics of long‐lived species is critical for the maintenance and potential recovery of such species. Despite the abundance of soft corals in Mediterranean rocky reefs, little information exists on their life histories and reproductive patterns. In this study, we assessed the main reproductive characteristics and early life‐history traits of the long‐lived soft coral <i>Alcyonium acaule</i>. The sex ratio was 1:1; the smallest fertile colonies were one finger in size (2.1 ± 0.6 cm in height), and both colony and polyp fertility increased with colony size. Likewise, the number of eggs and spermary sacs per polyp increased significantly with colony size, whereas the diameter of the female and male sexual products did not. Over 6 years of observations (2007–2012), spawning occurred primarily in July, after the seawater reached 20 °C, in a single spawning episode per year. Approximately 80% of female colonies released eggs, which were retained on the surface of the mother colony by mucous strings for up to a few days. High fertilization rates were observed during spawning in 2008 and 2009 (94.9% and 87.0%, respectively). The timing of development was ~24 h for the blastulae, ~48–72 h for the planulae and 8–22 days for metamorphosis into primary polyps. Survivorship of planulae was relatively high (~50% at 45 days after release), but only 24% of larvae metamorphosed into primary polyps, and their survivorship was moderate after 2 months (65% in 2008 and 74% in 2009). Asexual reproduction was negligible, indicating that sexual reproduction is the main mechanism supporting the maintenance and recovery of populations.","AbstractOtherLang":null,"BibLvlCode":"AS","StandardTitle":"Sexual reproduction and early life-history traits of the Mediterranean soft coral <i>Alcyonium acaule</i>","OrigTitleLangCode":"en","OrigTitleLangCodeExtended":"eng","OrigTitleLangID":15,"DateLastModified":{"date":"2026-04-19 01:32:08.360831","timezone_type":1,"timezone":"+02:00"},"UserAccessRight":null,"UserAccID":null,"AuthorKeywords":null,"OtherDescriptors":null,"Notes":null,"AnaPub":2016,"MonPub":null,"DateUpdate":"2020-11-13","DateCreate":"2020-11-13","SecASFANote":null,"ConfID":null,"PeerRev":1,"VlizCoreFlag":1,"WoScode":"WOS:000370133500009","VABBcode":null,"OpenAcc":0,"DOI":"10.1111/maec.12255"},"refs":null,"anarec":{"AnaID":330920,"PubliDate":2016,"Pagination":"134-144","XtraPublOfAnaID":null,"ISBN":null,"Volume":"37","Issue":"1","BRefMon":null,"BRefMonRR":null,"BRefXtra":null,"BRefXtraRR":null,"SerBRefID":43355,"SerRR":"Marine Ecology (Berlin). Blackwell: Berlin.  ISSN 0173-9565; e-ISSN 1439-0485","StandardTitleSer":"Marine Ecology (Berlin)","ISSN":"0173-9565","AbbrevSer":"Mar. Ecol. (Berl.)","StandardTitleMon":null,"StartPage":134,"Pages":11,"ToPubliDate":null,"BRefBibLvlCode":"S","SerNotes":null},"monrec":null,"serrec":null,"relations":null,"relationsRev":null,"addrec":null,"othpubs":null,"ownerships":null,"authors":[{"AutName":"Teixidó","Firstname":"Núria","Initials":"N.","Affiliation":null,"Discriminator":null,"CorporateFlag":0,"BEntID":324531,"AutID":245512,"OrderNr":1,"DegrID":null,"EditorFlag":0,"CorrespFlag":0,"IllustratorFlag":0,"ReviserFlag":0,"TranslatorFlag":0,"InsAcronym":null,"InsFSN":null,"ORCID":null,"PersID":null,"InsID":null},{"AutName":"Bensoussan","Firstname":"Nathaniel","Initials":"N.","Affiliation":null,"Discriminator":null,"CorporateFlag":0,"BEntID":324531,"AutID":341181,"OrderNr":2,"DegrID":null,"EditorFlag":0,"CorrespFlag":0,"IllustratorFlag":0,"ReviserFlag":0,"TranslatorFlag":0,"InsAcronym":null,"InsFSN":null,"ORCID":null,"PersID":null,"InsID":null},{"AutName":"Gori","Firstname":"Andrea","Initials":"A.","Affiliation":null,"Discriminator":null,"CorporateFlag":0,"BEntID":324531,"AutID":215604,"OrderNr":3,"DegrID":null,"EditorFlag":0,"CorrespFlag":0,"IllustratorFlag":0,"ReviserFlag":0,"TranslatorFlag":0,"InsAcronym":null,"InsFSN":null,"ORCID":null,"PersID":null,"InsID":null},{"AutName":"Fiorillo","Firstname":"Ida","Initials":"I.","Affiliation":null,"Discriminator":null,"CorporateFlag":0,"BEntID":324531,"AutID":415691,"OrderNr":4,"DegrID":null,"EditorFlag":0,"CorrespFlag":0,"IllustratorFlag":0,"ReviserFlag":0,"TranslatorFlag":0,"InsAcronym":null,"InsFSN":null,"ORCID":null,"PersID":null,"InsID":null},{"AutName":"Viladrich","Firstname":"Nuria","Initials":"N.","Affiliation":null,"Discriminator":null,"CorporateFlag":0,"BEntID":324531,"AutID":416730,"OrderNr":5,"DegrID":null,"EditorFlag":0,"CorrespFlag":0,"IllustratorFlag":0,"ReviserFlag":0,"TranslatorFlag":0,"InsAcronym":null,"InsFSN":null,"ORCID":null,"PersID":null,"InsID":null}],"mapdetails":null,"datasets":[{"DasID":6462,"Acronym":null,"Citation":"Linares, Cristina; Figuerola, Laura; Gómez-Gras, Daniel; Pagès-Escolà, Marta; Olvera, Àngela, Aubach, Àlex; Amate, Roger; Figuerola, Blanca; Kersting, Diego; Ledoux, Jean-Baptiste; López-Sanz, Àngel; López-Sendino, Paula; Medrano, Alba; Garrabou, Joaquim; (2020); CorMedNet- Distribution and demographic data of habitat-forming invertebrate species from Mediterranean coralligenous assemblages between 1882 and 2019","StandardTitle":"CorMedNet- Distribution and demographic data of habitat-forming invertebrate species from Mediterranean coralligenous assemblages between 1882 and 2019.","RelationID":2,"DOI":"10.14284/467"}],"monographs":null,"monparts":null,"serparts":null,"BEntOpen":null,"BEntPrivate":null,"availability":[{"BInstID":355177,"LibID":36,"BRefID":330920,"EmbargoDate":null,"FullEmbargoDate":null,"PhysMedID":16,"hasOCRd":null,"ShelfLocCode":"355177","RFID":null,"PaidValue":null,"Medium":"Server","Description":"Interne VLIZ documenten","Acronym":"VLIZ","Library":"Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee","DutchTerm":"Non-open access","URL":null,"ClassifID":228,"Classification":"Non-open access","ReqLink":1,"ClassifTypID":3,"URLLocation":"https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/","SubDir":1,"InternalReq":1,"LoggedInReq":1,"Disclaimer":"Disclaimer_VLIZ_Intern","DutchDisclaimer":"<p>Deze publicatie is enkel beschikbaar voor persoonlijk gebruik binnen de Innovocean site <br />en mag op geen enkele manier verder worden verspreid.</p>","FileFormat":".pdf","FileDescr":"pdf","InsPub":1,"InsID":36,"FileFormID":6,"LendableFlag":1,"PublicFlag":1,"orderLib":"A","Notes":null,"AccConID":null,"AccessConstraint":null,"LicURL":null}],"litstyles":null,"thespers":null,"arch2discl":null,"SERpubls":[{"PublName":"Blackwell","City":"Berlin"}],"MONpubls":null,"pictures":[],"thestermsPath":null,"thestermsASFA":null,"taxtermsASFA":[{"TaxTerm":"Alcyonium acaule"}],"geotermsASFA":null,"collections":[{"Collection":"EMODNET","ShortName":"emodnet"}],"conf":null,"proj":null,"Physdatasets":null,"spcols":{"552":{"SpName":"EMODNET","SpColID":552,"ParSpColID":null,"TopParID":null,"ShortName":"emodnet","URLLocation":null,"LibID":null,"OpenRepoFlag":null,"SpTypID":null,"TopParIDNotWebsite":null,"SpColPath":"emodnet"}},"doi":null,"publs":null,"serparttypes":null,"monauthors":null,"MParts":null,"SParts":null,"hLibs":null,"langs":[{"BEntID":324531,"AbstractFlag":0,"LangID":15,"LangCode":"en","Lang":"English","DutchTerm":"Engels","LangCodeExtended":"eng"},{"BEntID":324531,"AbstractFlag":1,"LangID":15,"LangCode":"en","Lang":"English","DutchTerm":"Engels","LangCodeExtended":"eng"}],"urls":[{"URL":"https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maec.12255","externalID":"10.1111/maec.12255","URLTypeCode":"DOI","URLID":87815,"URLTypID":13,"URLType":"DOI","URLPrefix":"http://dx.doi.org/"}],"thesterms":null,"taxterms":[{"TaxTerm":"Alcyonium acaule","AphiaID":125331,"TaxtID":48350}],"geoterms":null,"othterms":null,"asfacodes":null,"asfa2codes":null,"thestermsFRIS":null,"taxtermsFRIS":[{"TaxTerm":"Alcyonium acaule","DutchTerm":null,"AphiaID":125331,"TaxtID":48350}],"geotermsFRIS":null,"othtermsFRIS":null,"resmessage":"","complete":1,"sessions":{"newSesName":"Bouchti, Zohra, Z.","newSesDate":{"date":"2020-11-13 07:12:10.760000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Europe/Brussels"},"updSesName":"Bouchti, Zohra, Z.","updSesDate":{"date":"2020-11-13 07:12:10.760000","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"Europe/Brussels"}}}