Impacts of bottom trawling on a deep-water Oculina coral ecosystem off Florida

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 481-496

  Reed, John K ^a   Koenig, Christopher C ^b   Shepard, Andrew N ^c  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM TRAWLING; CORAL REEF; DEEP WATER; MARINE PARK; PHOTOGRAPH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPAWNING; SURVIVAL;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; OCULINA HABITAT AREA OF PARTICULAR CONCERN; UNITED STATES;

ANTHOZOA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EPINEPHELINAE; OCULINA; SICYONIIDAE;

EID: 38349030641     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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