Diversity and endemism of the benthic seamount fauna in the southwest Pacific

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6789, 2000, Pages 944-947

  De Forges, Bertrand Richer ^a   Koslow, J Anthony ^b,c   Pooro, G C B ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BIODIVERSITY; ENDEMISM; SEAMOUNT;

AQUATIC FAUNA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; FISHING; GEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; VOLCANO;

ANIMALS; FISHES; INVERTEBRATES; OCEANS AND SEAS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANTHOZOA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034702245     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35016066     Document Type: Article

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