Life on Seamounts

Life in the World's Oceans: Diversity, Distribution, and Abundance

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 123-138

  Consalvey, Mireille ^a   Clark, Malcolm R ^a   Rowden, Ashley A ^a   Stocks, Karen I ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathymetry of our oceans resolved at a scale and detail unimaginable by early pioneers; Enhanced productivity at seamounts seamounts appearing to support relatively large planktonic and higher consumer (fish) biomass; Factors driving community composition and diversity on seamounts; History of seamount research; Life on seamounts; Sampling seamounts; Seamount community composition and diversity; Seamounts Online (Stocks 2009) collecting data on species, recorded from seamounts, globally; Seamounts, differing in their location, depth, elevation, and geological history

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957190732     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444325508.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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