Mapping Condor Seamount Seafloor Environment and Associated Biological Assemblages (Azores, Ne Atlantic)

Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 807-818

  Tempera, Fernando ^a   Giacomello, Eva ^a   Mitchell, Neil C ^b   Campos, Aldino S ^c   Braga Henriques, Andreia ^a   Bashmachnikov, Igor ^d   Martins, Ana ^a   Mendonça, Ana ^a   Morato, Telmo ^a   Colaço, Ana ^a   Porteiro, Filipe M ^a   Catarino, Diana ^a   Gonçalves, João ^a   Pinho, Mário R ^a   Isidro, Eduardo J ^a   Santos, Ricardo S ^a   Menezes, Gui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Portuguese Task Group for the Extension of the Continental Shelf (EMEPC)   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Azores; Benthic zonation; Condor seamount; Habitat mapping; Landscape classification; Scientific observatory; Seamount geomorphology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871200782     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385140-6.00059-1     Document Type: Chapter

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