Cold-water coral habitats on seamounts: Do they have a specialist fauna?

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 925-934

  O'Hara, Timothy D ^a   Rowden, Ashley A ^b   Williams, Alan ^c  

^a MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cold water coral; Ophiuroidea; Seamounts; Solenosmilia variabilis

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD WATER; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORAL; DAMAGE; DATA SET; ECHINODERM; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATCHINESS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEAFLOOR; SEAMOUNT; SPECIALIST; TRAWLING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MACQUARIE RIDGE; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANTHOZOA; INVERTEBRATA; OPHIUROIDEA; SCLERACTINIA; SOLENOSMILIA; SOLENOSMILIA VARIABILIS;

EID: 54049125305     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00495.x     Document Type: Article

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