Quantifying relationships between video observations of cold-water coral cover and seafloor features in rockall trough, west of Ireland

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 375, Issue , 2009, Pages 125-138

  Guinan, Janine ^a,b   Grehan, Anthony J ^b   Dolan, Margaret F J ^b   Brown, Colin ^b  

^a MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Carbonate mounds; Habitat mapping; Remotely operated vehicle; Terrain analysis

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; COLD WATER; CORAL; MAPPING METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE; SEAFLOOR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TERRAIN; TROUGH; VIDEOGRAPHY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 60949087527     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07739     Document Type: Article

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