Optical properties of water and spectral light absorption by living and non-living particles and by yellow substances in coral reef waters of French Polynesia

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 131, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 245-255

  Maritorena, Stéphane ^a   Guillocheau, Nathalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA POLYNÉSIE FRANÇAISE   (French Polynesia)

Author keywords

Coral reefs; Light absorption; Optical properties

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 0029811897     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps131245     Document Type: Article

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