Challenges in marine, soft-sediment benthoscape ecology

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages 7-18

  Zajac, Roman N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic; Ecology; Landscape; Macrofauna; Marine; Scale; Sea floor mapping; Side scan; Soft sediment

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; MAPPING; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEAFLOOR; SIDESCAN SONAR;

EID: 37549033472     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-007-9140-4     Document Type: Article

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