Deep-sea corals: Out of sight, but no longer out of mind

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 123-130

  Roberts, Santi ^a   Hirshfield, Michael ^a  

^a Oceana   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA; CRUSTACEA; INVERTEBRATA; SWIFTIA EXSERTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 25444453998     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2004)002[0123:DCOOSB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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