Beta diversity of cold-water coral reef communities off western Scotland

Coral Reefs

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 427-436

  Henry, Lea Anne ^a   Davies, Andrew J ^a,b   Roberts, J Murray ^a,c,d  

^a SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^d HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic remote sensing; Beta diversity; Cold water corals; Lophelia pertusa; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; AUTOCORRELATION; CORAL; CORAL REEF; FILTER FEEDER; REMOTE SENSING; SESSILE SPECIES; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANTHOZOA; LOPHELIA; LOPHELIA PERTUSA; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 77952242082     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-009-0577-6     Document Type: Article

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