Dataset: Oxygen consumption and metabolic enzyme activity in the Antarctic coral, Flabellum impensum from RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer NBP1002 in the Western Antarctic Peninsula, Mar.- May 2010 (CARIACO-micronek project, Antarctic_micronek project)

This study characterizes the metabolism of the endemic Antarctic coral Flabellum impensum by measuring oxygen consumption and metabolic enzyme activity.  This dataset is a comparison of Flabellum impensum metabolism with other corals reported in the literature and is from a table extracted from the paper,

Metabolism of an Antarctic solitary coral, Flabellum impensum. 2013, by Lara V. Henry and Joseph J. Torres found in the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 449 (2013) 17-21.  (Table 1)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2013.08.010

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