Geomorphic Features and Infauna Diversity of a Subtropical Mid-Ocean Carbonate Shelf: Lord Howe Island, Southwest Pacific Ocean

Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 375-386

  Brooke, Brendan P ^a   McArthur, Matthew A ^a   Woodroffe, Colin D ^b   Linklater, Michelle ^b   Nichol, Scott L ^a   Anderson, Tara J ^a   Mleczko, Richard ^a   Sagar, Stephen ^a  

^a Marine and Coastal Environment Group   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Benthic biodiversity; Marine geomorphology; Marine sediment Holocene coral reef; Multibeam sonar

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884447315     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385140-6.00025-6     Document Type: Chapter

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