Deep-sea reef fish assemblage patterns on the Blake Plateau (Western North Atlantic Ocean)

Marine Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 74-92

  Ross, Steve W ^a   Quattrini, Andrea M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep sea coral fish communities; Lophelia pertusa; Multivariate analyses; Southeastern USA; Submersible observations

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CORAL; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HABITAT TYPE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BLAKE PLATEAU; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANTHOZOA; HELICOLENUS DACTYLOPTERUS; LAEMONEMA BARBATULUM; LAEMONEMA MELANURUM; LOPHELIA PERTUSA; NEZUMIA SCLERORHYNCHUS; PISCES; SCLERORHYNCHUS; SYNAPHOBRANCHUS;

EID: 59549097615     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2008.00260.x     Document Type: Article

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