Frequency of sublethal injury in a deepwater ophiuroid, Ophiacantha bidentata, an important component of western Atlantic Lophelia reef communities

Marine Biology

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 307-314

  Allen Brooks, R ^a,d   Nizinski, Martha S ^b   Ross, Steve W ^a,c   Sulak, Kenneth J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^d ENSR   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL; DEEP WATER; ECHINODERM; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INJURY; PREDATION; REEF; REGENERATION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST); NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANTHOZOA; INVERTEBRATA; LOPHELIA; LOPHELIA PERTUSA; OPHIACANTHA BIDENTATA; OPHIUROIDEA;

EID: 34547110349     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-007-0690-4     Document Type: Article

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