New estimates of global and regional coral reef areas

Coral Reefs

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 225-230

  Spalding, M D ^a,b   Grenfell, A M ^c  

^a UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA ESTIMATION; CONSERVATION; CORAL REEF; MAPPING;

EID: 0031417535     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003380050078     Document Type: Article

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