Habitat Mapping of a Cold-Water Coral Mound on Pen Duick Escarpment (Gulf of Cadiz)

Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 645-654

  De Mol, Lies ^a   Hilário, Ana ^b   Van Rooij, David ^a   Henriet, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cold water corals; Dendrophyllia; Gulf of Cadiz; Habitat mapping; Lophelia pertusa; Mounds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884426396     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385140-6.00046-3     Document Type: Chapter

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