The cave-profiler: A simple tool to describe the 3-D structure of inaccessible coral reef cavities

Coral Reefs

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 49-53

  Scheffers, S R ^a,b   De Goeij, J ^a   Van Duyl, F C ^a   Bak, R P M ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b CARMABI FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dimensions; Reef framework; Reef surface area; Sessile cryptofauna; Structure; Substratum

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; GEOMETRY; PROFILER;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 0038340784     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-003-0285-6     Document Type: Article

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