Ten years after the crime: Lasting effects of damage from a cruise ship anchor on a coral reef in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 793-803

  Rogers, Caroline S ^a   Garrison, Virginia H ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCHOR; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CORAL REEF; DAMAGE;

VIRGIN ISLANDS (U.S.);

AGARICIA AGARICITES; ANTHOZOA; PORITES;

EID: 0035681993     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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