Deep Coral Oases in the South Tyrrhenian Sea

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Bo, Marzia ^a   Canese, Simonepietro ^b   Spaggiari, Costanza ^c   Pusceddu, Antonio ^c   Bertolino, Marco ^a   Angiolillo, Michela ^b   Giusti, Michela ^b   Loreto, Maria Filomena ^d,e   Salvati, Eva ^b   Greco, Silvestro ^b   Bavestrello, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^e ISMAR CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPATHELLA SUBPINNATA; ANTIPATHES DICHOTOMA; ARTICLE; BEBRYCE MOLLIS; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; CALLOGORGIA VERTICILLATA; CORAL; CORALLIUM RUBRUM; DEEP CORAL; HABITAT; ITALY; LEPTOGORGIA SARMENTOSA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; PARAMURICEA CLAVATA; PARAMURICEA MACROSPINA; PARANTIPATHES LARIX; SEASHORE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VILLOGORGIA BEBRYCOIDES;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA; ANTIPATHARIA; ANTIPATHES DICHOTOMA; BEBRYCE; CALLOGORGIA VERTICILLATA; CORALLIUM RUBRUM; GORGONACEA; LARIX; LEPTOGORGIA SARMENTOSA; PARAMURICEA; PARAMURICEA CLAVATA; PARANTIPATHES; VILLOGORGIA;

EID: 84869750324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049870     Document Type: Article

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