Diverse staghorn coral fauna on the mesophotic reefs of north-east Australia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Muir, Paul ^a   Wallace, Carden ^a   Bridge, Tom C L ^b,c   Bongaerts, Pim ^d  

^a QUEENSLAND MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ACROPORA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; BONE STRUCTURE; CORAL REEF; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FAUNA; INDONESIA; ISOPORA; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER FLOW; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY;

ACROPORA; ANTHOZOA; ISOPORA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; CORAL REEFS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84923800851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117933     Document Type: Article

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