Mounting evidence: Near-slope seamounts are faunally indistinct from an adjacent bank

Marine Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 52-62

  Howell, Kerry L ^a   Mowles, Sophie L ^a   Foggo, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bank; Benthic fauna; Biodiversity hotspot; Conservation; Deep sea; Island biogeography; Seamount; Video

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEEP SEA; ENDEMISM; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GUYOT; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; SEAMOUNT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); ROCKALL TROUGH;

EID: 78149371451     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2010.00368.x     Document Type: Article

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