Megafaunal community structure of Andaman seamounts including the Back-Arc Basin - a quantitative exploration from the Indian Ocean

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Sautya, Sabyasachi ^a   Ingole, Baban ^a   Ray, Durbar ^a   Stöhr, Sabine ^b   Samudrala, Kiranmai ^a   Kamesh Raju, K A ^a   Mudholkar, Abhay ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BACK ARC BASIN; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; ECHINODERM; FAUNA; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HABITAT; INDIAN OCEAN; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SEAMOUNT; SEDIMENT; SESSILE SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPONGE (PORIFERA); VIDEORECORDING; VOLCANO; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; MARINE BIOLOGY;

ANTHOZOA; ARTHROPODA; ECHINODERMATA; PORIFERA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INDIAN OCEAN; MARINE BIOLOGY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 79551649919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016162     Document Type: Article

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