New Perceptions of Continental Margin Biodiversity

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 79-102

  Menot, Lenaick ^a,b,c   Sibuet, Myriam ^b   Carney, Robert S ^d   Levin, Lisa A ^e   Rowe, Gilbert T ^f   Billett, David S M ^g   Poore, Gary ^h   Kitazato, Hiroshi ⁱ   Vanreusel, Ann ^j   Galéron, Joëlle ^a   Lavrado, Helena P ^k   Sellanes, Javier ^l   Ingole, Baban ^m   Krylova, Elena ⁿ  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b Institut Oceanographique de Paris   (France)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION   (United States)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Kintama Research Corp   (Canada)

^h MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

ⁱ JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^k FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^l UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

^m NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

ⁿ SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

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Author keywords

Census of Marine Life, synergetic approaches to assess and explain diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the ocean; COMARGE science plan, finalized during a community workshop held in 2006; COMARGE, to evaluate and understand relations between habitat heterogeneity and diversity; First comprehensive map of footprint of human activities on northeast Atlantic margins; Habitat heterogeneity generating and maintaining continental margin biodiversity; Heterogeneity acts in a hierarchical scale influencing margin diversity; Human influence on continental margin ecosystems; Models underlying heterogeneity diversity relation; New perceptions of continental margin biodiversity; Zonation and distribution on continental margins

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957205182     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444325508.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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