The seabed habitats of the central English Channel: A generation on from Holme and Cabioch, how do their interpretations match-up to modern mapping techniques?

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2011, Pages

  Coggan, Roger ^a   Diesing, Markus ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continental shelf; English Channel; Habitat classification; La Manche; Seabed mapping

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; BIOTOPE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; EUROPEAN UNION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; POLICY REFORM; SAMPLING; SEAFLOOR; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; TYPOLOGY; UNDERWATER CAMERA;

ENGLISH CHANNEL;

EID: 79955474174     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2009.12.002     Document Type: Article

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