Recent advances in deep-sea coral science and emerging links to conservation and management of deep-sea ecosystems

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 397, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-5

  Miller, Karen ^a   Neil, Helen ^b   Tracey, Di ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation and management; Deep sea corals; Ecology; Geochemical archives; Growth; Mapping tools; Symposium

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CORAL REEF; DEEP SEA; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LONGEVITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WELLINGTON [NORTH ISLAND];

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 74049155369     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08452     Document Type: Article

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