Reply to Boehm and Carragher: Multiple lines of evidence link deep-water coral damage to Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 40, 2012, Pages

  White, Helen K ^a   Hsing, Pen Yuan ^b   Cho, Walter ^c   Shank, Timothy M ^c   Cordes, Erik E ^d   Quattrini, Andrea M ^d   Nelson, Robert K ^c   Camilli, Richard ^c   Demopoulos, Amanda W J ^e   German, Christopher R ^c   Brooks, James M ^f   Roberts, Harry H ^g   Shedd, William ^h   Reddy, Christopher M ^c   Fisher, Charles R ^b  

^a HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d Temple University   (United States)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^f TDI Brooks International Inc   (United States)

^g LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h US Department of the Interior   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

COLD SEEP SPECIES; CORAL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LANDSLIDE; LETTER; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OIL SPILL; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRIC DATING; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84867046298     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1210413109     Document Type: Letter

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