The carbonate mineralogy and distribution of habitat-forming deep-sea corals in the southwest pacific region

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 100, Issue , 2015, Pages 88-104

  Bostock, Helen C ^a   Tracey, Dianne M ^a   Currie, Kim I ^b   Dunbar, Gavin B ^c   Handler, Monica R ^c   Mikaloff Fletcher, Sara E ^a   Smith, Abigail M ^b   Williams, Michael J M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alcyonacean; Aragonite; Habitat forming deep sea coral; High Mg calcite; Scleractinian; South Pacific

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBONATE MINERALS; CARBONATION; ECOSYSTEMS; MINERALS; OXYGEN;

ALCYONACEAN; ARAGONITE; DEEP-SEA CORALS; HIGH-MG CALCITES; SCLERACTINIAN; SOUTH PACIFIC;

UNDERWATER MINERALOGY;

ACIDIFICATION; ARAGONITE; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; CALCITE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORAL REEF; DEEP SEA; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT TYPE; INTERMEDIATE WATER; MINERALOGY; OXYGEN; TAXONOMY; WATER DEPTH;

ANTARCTICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

ALCYONACEA; ANTHOZOA; ENALLOPSAMMIA ROSTRATA; GONIOCORELLA DUMOSA; KERATOISIS; LEPIDISIS; MADREPORA OCULATA; OCULINA VIRGOSA; PARAGORGIA; SCLERACTINIA; SOLENOSMILIA VARIABILIS;

EID: 84928322578     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2015.02.008     Document Type: Article

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