Quantifying the decline in Corallium rubrum populations: Reply to Santangelo & Bramanti (2010)

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 418, Issue , 2010, Pages 299-303

  Bruckner, Andrew W ^a  

^a KHALED BIN SULTAN LIVING OCEANS FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

CITES Appendix II listing; Modular organism; Precious deep sea coral

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COLONY; CORAL; DATA SET; DEEP SEA; DEEP WATER; DEMOGRAPHY; FISHING; HARVESTING; POPULATION DECLINE; SAMPLING; SCUBA DIVING; SHALLOW WATER; SIZE STRUCTURE; SUSTAINABILITY;

CATALONIA; COSTA BRAVA; SPAIN;

ANTHOZOA; CORALLIUM RUBRUM;

EID: 78649625050     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08898     Document Type: Review

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