The diversity of coral reefs: What are we missing?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Plaisance, Laetitia ^a,b   Caley, M Julian ^c   Brainard, Russell E ^d   Knowlton, Nancy ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR MARINE BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^d PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CORAL REEF; CRUSTACEA; DNA BARCODING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CENTRAL AMERICA; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANTHOZOA; CRUSTACEA; METAZOA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CARIBBEAN REGION; CORAL REEFS; GEOGRAPHY; HAWAII; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANS AND SEAS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80054086667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025026     Document Type: Article

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